Entry № 6869 · Germanic origin

Millie Millie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MILL-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Strength, gentle strength"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (short form)

A name that means "strength, gentle strength".

Millie is the diminutive of several names: Mildred (from Old English mild + þrȳð, meaning "gentle strength"), Camilla (Latin, a young helper in Roman ritual), Emilia (Latin aemulus, "rival"), and Millicent (Germanic, "strong worker").

Millie was very popular in the late 19th century, faded for most of the 20th, and has returned. Today it sits in the U.S. top 400 and is climbing.

Gentle strength. A nickname grown up.

The name in its native script.

Millie
Transliteration
Millie
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɪl.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Millie stands.

Millie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Millies before her.

Real people
Millie Bobby Brown
British actress, Stranger Things.
born 2004
In fiction

Names connected to Millie.

The number behind Millie.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Millie reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.