Milly
2025 SSA
About Milly
Milly and her more popular sister Millie are adorable Old Lady nickname-names springing back to life. Nearly 100 baby girls were named Milly, just Milly, last year, and Millie is in the US Top 500. Milly is the Molly of the new generation.
Pronounced MIL-ee.
As of October 2026, Milly ranked #1790 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #714 in 1884.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,657 | 129 | 72.2 |
| 2015 | #2,160 | 88 | 49.3 |
| 2016 | #1,836 | 113 | 63.8 |
| 2017 | #1,949 | 103 | 59.7 |
| 2018 | #1,875 | 108 | 63.5 |
| 2019 | #1,927 | 103 | 61.4 |
| 2020 | #1,877 | 103 | 63.7 |
| 2021 | #1,736 | 119 | 72.5 |
| 2022 | #1,778 | 116 | 70.7 |
| 2023 | #1,831 | 110 | 68.6 |
| 2024 | #1,791 | 112 | 69.1 |
| 2025 | #1,790 | 113 | 70.3 |
World rankings
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Milly on lists
Famous Millys
- Camilla "Milly" Rosso
English actress; twin sister Rebecca "Becky" Rosso
- Milly Shapiro
American Broadway actress
- Milly Jane Johnson
British romance novelist
- Milagros "Milly" Quezada
Dominican merengue singer
- Camilla "Milly" Durrant
Welsh footballer
- Beatrice Milly McCartney
daughter of Paul McCartney
Milly in pop culture
- Milly Bloom
daughter of journalist Leopold Bloom and Marion "Molly" Tweedy in "Ulysses" (1922) by James Joyce
- Milly Theale
invalid heroine of The Wings of a Dove (1902) by Henry James; the dove of the title, who leaves her millions to Densher
- Milly Thompson
character in the anime Trigun
- Milly Ashford
character in "Code Geass"
- Milly
character in video game 'Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation'
- Milly & Matt
characters in Australian hip,hop song, Ghost In The Shell by Thundamentals
- Milly
Adam's bride in the 1954 musical film "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers"