Millie

Where Millie comes from

Clipping + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Millie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #144 among girls — 105 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1938
    Millie Perkins born
    American actress
  3. 1945
    Millie Hughes-Fulford born
    astronaut, academic researcher
  4. 2025
    Peak, #73
    3,353 babies named Millie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2025
    The comeback
    Back to #73 after sinking to #3,361 in 1996.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Mildred, Millicent, Emily, Amelia, and Camilla, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Millie Hughes-Fulford · astronaut, academic researcher, 1945–2021
  • Millie Perkins · American actress, born 1938
  • Millie Bright · English association football player, born 1993
  • Millie Small · Jamaican singer, 1947–2020
  • Millie Brady · British actress, born 1993

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.