Millicent
About Millicent
Combining the mild and the innocent, this sweet and feminine name is worthy of a comeback, in the mode of Madeline and Cecilia. Its original, also attractive form is Melisende, which came from Germany to France and was borne by a daughter of Charlemagne.
Millicent has been in use since the Middle Ages, and was in the Top 500 in the 1920's. Off the list since the early sixties, it's Number 361 on Nameberry.
Millicent Hargrave is a character in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Millicent Henning is found in Henry James's The Princess Casamassima, and she appears not once but twice in Harry Potter; she is is also Barbie's middle name.
And of course Milly is one of the cutest of the nostalgic nickname names. .
Pronounced MIL-uh-sent.
As of October 2026, Millicent ranked #1900 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #435 in 1927, Nameberry popularity #758.
Editor's take: The name Millicent is a girl's name of German origin meaning "strong in work".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,088 | 93 | 52.1 |
| 2015 | #2,273 | 83 | 46.5 |
| 2016 | #1,740 | 120 | 67.7 |
| 2017 | #1,632 | 133 | 77 |
| 2018 | #1,723 | 120 | 70.5 |
| 2019 | #1,679 | 125 | 74.5 |
| 2020 | #1,938 | 99 | 61.2 |
| 2021 | #1,559 | 135 | 82.3 |
| 2022 | #1,924 | 104 | 63.4 |
| 2023 | #1,789 | 114 | 71 |
| 2024 | #1,639 | 126 | 77.8 |
| 2025 | #1,900 | 103 | 64.1 |
World rankings
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Millicent on lists
Famous Millicents
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
English suffragist
- Millicent Mary Lillian Martin
English singer and actress
- Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwick
American fashion editor, diplomat and Congresswoman from New Jersey
- Millicent Borges Accardi
Portuguese,American poet and writer
- Millicent Veronica (Willson) Hearst
wife of American newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst
- (Hester) Millicent Hughes Mackenzie
English educator and academic
- Millicent B. Shelton
American music video and TV director
- Millicent Fanny (St. Clair
Erskine) Sutherland,Leveson,Gower, British socialite, author and playwright under the pen name Erskine Gower
- Millicent Ellis Selsam
American children's author
- Millicent Irene Silver
English harpsichordist
- Millicent "Millie" Simmonds
deaf American actress
- Anthea Millicent Turner
English television presenter
Millicent in pop culture
- Millicent Margaret Amanda
Milly,Molly,Mandy's real name
- Millicent Bulstrode
character in the Harry Potter series
- Millicent Bagnold
character in the Harry Potter series
- Barbara Millicent Roberts
Barbie's full name
- Millicent "Penny" Gordon Woods
character on TV's "Good Times"
- Millicent Carew
fiancée to Dr. Jekyll in the 1920 film "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
- Millicent
bunny in the 1957 Bugs Bunny cartoon "Rabbit Romeo"
- Millicent
term for police officers in "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
- Millicent Collins aka Millie the Model
Marvel Comics character
- "Millicent Min
Girl Genius," novel by Lisa Yee
- Millicent Gergich
character on TV's "Parks and Recreation"
- Millicent Mudd
character in webcomic "Ozy and Millie"
- Millicent Weems
character in 2008 film "Synecdoche, New York"
- Millicent Carter
character on TV's "ER"
- Millicent
character in short story "Initiation" by Sylvia Plath
- Millicent "Millie" Princey
character in the "Wet Saturday" episode of TV's "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
- Millicent
main character in the Twilight Zone episode "Mirror Image"
- Millicent Collins
Collins family ancestor on TV's "Dark Shadows"
- Milicent Darnham
character in "Mothers and Daughters" by Catherine Gore
- Millicent
goose in children's book "Detective Arthur" by Mary J. Fulton
- Lady Millicent "Millie" de Laval
character in the Longbow series by Wayne Grant
- Millicent Lawrence
main character "in The Whispers" ABC's series.
- Millicent
Character in video game Elden Ring