Boy · English surname
Millard
Say it: MIL-urd
Meaning
From an English surname, probably 'keeper of a mill'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used in the US mostly in the late 1800s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 16,762 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1882, about 1 in 1,600 boys
- 5 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Millard Fillmore, US president
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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