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Girl · Old English
Mildred
Say it: MIL-dred
Meaning
From Old English Mildthryth, from mild 'gentle' and thryth 'strength'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Kept alive by the cult of the Kentish abbess, revived in Tudor families, and briefly fashionable around 1900.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1900s
In the United States
- 452,474 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1909, about 1 in 69 girls
- 95 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Mildryth
| Old English | Mildthryth |
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Famous bearers
- Saint Mildred, abbess of Minster-in-Thanet
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Where this comes from
- Anglo-Saxon charters, chronicles and church records
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Parish baptism registers
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.