# Milford (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/milford/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,211 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,198 / 13 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 7 | 4,245 |
| 1935 | 6 | 4,083 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 15 | 2,988 |
| 1982 | 15 | 3,057 |
| 1983 | 9 | 4,374 |
| 1984 | 7 | 5,372 |
| 1985 | 14 | 3,332 |
| 1986 | 8 | 5,173 |
| 1987 | 11 | 4,150 |
| 1988 | 6 | 6,980 |
| 1989 | 8 | 6,032 |
| 1990 | 11 | 4,890 |
| 1991 | 6 | 7,919 |
| 1992 | 12 | 4,768 |
| 1994 | 6 | 8,447 |
| 2000 | 6 | 9,904 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,789 |

## People named Milford

- Milford Graves, American jazz drummer and percussionist (1941-2021)
- Milford H. Wolpoff, American paleoanthropologist
- John Rutter, British composer, conductor and arranger
- Donald Payne Jr., American politician (1958–2024)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.