Milda

Where Milda comes from

Milda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #959 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #903
    13 babies named Milda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,700.
  4. 1918
    Milda Lauberte born
    Latvian chess player
  5. 1994
    Milda Valčiukaitė born
    Lithuanian rower
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Milda Valčiukaitė · Lithuanian rower, born 1994
  • Milda Lauberte · Latvian chess player, 1918–2009
  • Milda Vainiutė · Lithuanian legal scholar and politician, 1962–2024
  • Milda Sauliūtė · Lithuanian basketball player, born 1981
  • Milda Petrauskienė · politician, born 1949

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.