# Mills (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mills/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /mɪlz/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,045 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 919 / 126 (12% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From mills, in reference to mill owners and mill workers.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | 18,408 |
| 2014 | 6 | 15,911 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,557 |
| 2017 | 5 | 17,609 |
| 2018 | 11 | 9,617 |
| 2019 | 8 | 12,084 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,553 |
| 2021 | 6 | 14,693 |
| 2022 | 21 | 5,911 |
| 2023 | 19 | 6,332 |
| 2024 | 15 | 7,484 |
| 2025 | 15 | 7,382 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 10,397 |
| 2012 | 20 | 4,807 |
| 2013 | 14 | 6,137 |
| 2014 | 10 | 7,945 |
| 2015 | 15 | 5,906 |
| 2016 | 22 | 4,577 |
| 2017 | 24 | 4,297 |
| 2018 | 30 | 3,675 |
| 2019 | 23 | 4,430 |
| 2020 | 29 | 3,701 |
| 2021 | 36 | 3,279 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4,394 |
| 2023 | 34 | 3,461 |
| 2024 | 43 | 2,943 |
| 2025 | 46 | 2,783 |

## People named Mills

- Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (1912-1997)
- Mills Watson, actor
- Mills E. Godwin, American politician (1914-1999)
- Mills Lane, American judge, boxer, boxing referee
- Robert M. Gagné, American psychologist (1916–2002)
- Sherman Fairchild, American businessman (1896–1971)

## 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.