Baby name
STABLE
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Mildred
/MIL · dred/
Meaning
“Gentle strength”
Old English compound from milde meaning gentle and thryth meaning strength; popular in early 20th-century America, now quintessentially grandmotherly.
Nicknames
millie · milly
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Deeply vintage American; Millie as a nickname makes the full name approachable again as retro names cycle back.
The cultural moment.
Peak use in the US from 1900 through the 1940s; early signs of ironic-retro interest since 2015.