How rare is the name Millicent?

7,659 people in the United States have the first name Millicent, about 1 in 39,435. It ranks #2,946 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

MILLICENT

#2,946

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,659
About
1 in 39,435
This common or more
81.3%
Who bears it

Of the 7,659 people named Millicent, 49.3% reported their origin as White, 40.6% as Black and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Millicent peaked in 1927, when 249 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1927
Births that year
249
In 2025*
103 ▼59%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 11,825 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Millicent by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #891. The largest share of babies named Millicent, 25.2%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1,36784
1890s#1,344141
1900s#1,079278
1910s#1,0061,120
1920s#8912,014
1930s#1,0431,337
1940s#1,403993
1950s#1,6311,054
1960s#1,7881,020
1970s#2,365710
1980s#3,245541
1990s#4,883410
2000s#5,677459
2010s#3,597980
2020s#3,256684
Before 19012.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2725.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4519.6%
Baby boom 1946–6417.1%
Generation X 1965–8010.5%
Millennials 1981–966.6%
Generation Z 1997–126.6%
2013 and later12.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Millicent is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Millicent has been most common in New York (3.4×), North Carolina (1.9×), and Pennsylvania (1.9×), and least common in Florida (0.34×).

5,934 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Millicent

1 other first name also has 7,659 people.

#2,946 Moira · 7,659

Either side of Millicent

#2,944 Mahmoud · 7,671#2,945 Forest · 7,663#2,946 Moira · 7,659#2,948 Domenic · 7,645

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Millicent, most common first.

#31,866 Milicent · 267

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