Milford
Where Milford comes from
Milford 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.
Along the way
- 1880First SSA yearAlready #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
- 1917Peak, #368230 babies named Milford — more than any year before or since.
- 1941Milford Graves bornAmerican jazz drummer and percussionist
- 1941The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #569.
- 1942Milford H. Wolpoff bornAmerican paleoanthropologist
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Milford Graves · American jazz drummer and percussionist, 1941–2021
- Milford H. Wolpoff · American paleoanthropologist, born 1942
- Milford W. Howard · American politician and lawyer, 1862–1937
- Milford Zornes · American artist, 1908–2008
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.