# Millie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/millie/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Milly |
| US babies named this | 46,138 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 212 / 45,926 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 45,443, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Clipping + -ie.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 330 | 812 |
| 2012 | 385 | 723 |
| 2013 | 481 | 592 |
| 2014 | 618 | 507 |
| 2015 | 682 | 469 |
| 2016 | 743 | 434 |
| 2017 | 895 | 353 |
| 2018 | 1,098 | 304 |
| 2019 | 1,317 | 240 |
| 2020 | 1,504 | 190 |
| 2021 | 1,697 | 173 |
| 2022 | 2,197 | 128 |
| 2023 | 2,564 | 105 |
| 2024 | 2,920 | 87 |
| 2025 | 3,353 | 73 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 10 | 2,923 |
| 1922 | 15 | 2,206 |
| 1923 | 14 | 2,295 |
| 1924 | 7 | 3,730 |
| 1925 | 6 | 4,045 |
| 1926 | 13 | 2,380 |
| 1927 | 11 | 2,643 |
| 1928 | 8 | 3,273 |
| 1929 | 5 | 4,361 |
| 1930 | 8 | 3,198 |
| 1932 | 7 | 3,275 |
| 1933 | 6 | 3,522 |
| 1937 | 5 | 3,865 |
| 1940 | 5 | 3,785 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,430 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,641 | 35 |
| 2012 | 1,912 | 26 |
| 2013 | 1,962 | 25 |
| 2014 | 1,685 | 29 |
| 2015 | 1,673 | 30 |
| 2016 | 1,456 | 34 |
| 2017 | 1,372 | 37 |
| 2018 | 1,196 | 40 |
| 2019 | 1,208 | 37 |
| 2020 | 1,319 | 33 |
| 2021 | 1,472 | 27 |
| 2022 | 1,670 | 18 |
| 2023 | 1,349 | 25 |
| 2024 | 1,255 | 27 |
| 2025 | 1,080 | 36 |

## People named Millie

- Millie Bright, English association football player
- Millie Hughes-Fulford, astronaut, academic researcher (1945-2021)
- Millie Perkins, American actress (born 1938)
- Millie Brady, British actress
- Millie Gibson, English actress
- Millie Couzens, British cyclist
- Millie Davis, Canadian actress
- Millie Turner, English association football player
- Vincent Youmans, American composer (1898-1946)

## 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.