Mills
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · #2,765 for boys in 2025, 46 births
Given to boys 87.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1882 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 919since 1882
Mills over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | #2,765 | 46 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | #2,915 | 43 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | #3,416 | 34 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #3,242 | 36 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #3,653 | 29 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #3,607 | 30 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #4,224 | 24 |
| 2016 | — | #4,470 | 22 | |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | — | #4,686 | 20 | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #8,803 | 8 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,692 | 10 | |
| 2008 | — | #8,324 | 9 | |
| 2007 | — | #8,915 | 8 | |
| 2006 | — | #7,427 | 10 | |
| 2005 | — | #11,472 | 5 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | — | #10,894 | 5 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,935 | 9 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,040 | 14 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,874 | 7 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,618 | 8 | |
| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | — | ||
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | — | ||
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| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | — | ||
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
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| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | #2,875 | 8 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,574 | 8 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,467 | 9 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #2,868 | 7 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,913 | 14 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,452 | 9 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | #2,738 | 8 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,092 | 7 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,096 | 14 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,522 | 11 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,451 | 7 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,435 | 12 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,473 | 12 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,240 | 14 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,231 | 14 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,543 | 11 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,423 | 11 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,152 | 13 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,975 | 11 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,676 | 11 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,269 | 6 | |
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| 1900 | — | #1,162 | 6 | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
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| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | #1,101 | 5 | |
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| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | #845 | 6 | |
| 1885 | — | #836 | 6 | |
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | #691 | 8 | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Mills! It came in at #691, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1884, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Mills is popular in 1882
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Mills
- 150 spots since 2024 (#2,915 → #2,765)
- 888 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #2,765)
- 2,981 spots since 2015 (#5,746 → #2,765)
- Biggest drop: 9 spots in 1886 (#836 → #845)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1882 at #691 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1883, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1885–1886
- Highest: 1 in 14,211 boys born in 1882 were named Mills (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,132 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.1% of all boys named Mills (212) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 20 | #691 (1882) | #791 |
| 1890s | 5 | #1,101 (1896) | #1,101 |
| 1900s | 6 | #1,162 (1900) | #1,162 |
| 1910s | 80 | #1,676 (1913) | #2,348 |
| 1920s | 103 | #2,096 (1929) | #2,865 |
| 1930s | 65 | #1,913 (1937) | #2,903 |
| 1940s | 66 | #2,405 (1943) | #2,894 |
| 1950s | 39 | #2,770 (1950) | #3,361 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 24 | #3,692 (1982) | #5,343 |
| 1990s | 34 | #6,496 (1996) | #7,580 |
| 2000s | 87 | #5,040 (2000) | #8,190 |
| 2010s | 173 | #3,607 (2018) | #5,896 |
| 2020s | 212 | #2,765 (2025) | #3,382 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mills in 1882
Top boys' names in 1882
More about 1882
boys
113,686 boys got a published name in 1882; 1 in 14,211 of them was named Mills, which outranked 37.1% of the 1,099 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).