Mildred


Gender:
Origin: English
162 famous people named Mildred found on Wikipedia.
450696 female, 1583 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 2069-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 6-th in year 1920
Used in: English

Meanings

A female given name: from Old English words meaning “mild” and “strength.”.

Mildred is a female given name. It is an Anglo-Saxon name of Old English origin, and its meaning is "gentle strength". It reached the rank of the sixth most popular name for girls in the United States in 1912 and maintained that popularity through 1920, but then its popularity dropped quickly afterward.

Fem. proper name, Old English Mildðryð, from milde "mild" (see mild) + ðryð "power, strength." A popular name in the Middle Ages through fame of St. Mildred (obit c. 700), abbess, daughter of a Mercian king and a Kentish princess. Among the 10 most popular names for girls born in the U.S. between 1903 and 1926, it hasn't been in the top 1,000 since 1983.

Gentle strength. Combine of milde (gentle, mild, generous) and dryd, thryth (strength).

Famous People: 162 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Mildred Harris 1901 Actress
2 Mildred Dresselhaus 1930 American physicist
3 Mildred Natwick 1905 American actress
4 Mildred Gillars 1900 American Nazi propagandist
5 Mildred Burke 1915 American professional wrestler
6 Mildred Davis 1901 American actress
7 Mildred Dunnock 1901 American theater, film and television actress
8 Mildred D. Taylor 1943 American writer
9 Mildred Bailey 1907 American jazz singer
10 Mildred J. Hill 1859 Composer
11 Mildred Harnack 1902 American-German literary historian, professor, translator; Resistance fighter amd anti-Nazi activist, who was executed during WWII in Germany
12 Mildred Dixon 1910
13 Mildred Kornman 1925 American actress
14 Mildred Benson 1905 American writer
15 Mildred Cohn 1913 American biochemist
16 Mildred Loving 1939
17 Mildred Hubble
18 Mildred Fay Jefferson 1926 American activist
19 Mildred Gale 1671 Grandmother of George Washington
20 Mildred Trouillot 1963 American lawyer
21 Mildred Thompson 1936 American artist
22 Mildred Cooke 1526 English noblewoman and translator
23 Mildred Robbins Leet 1922 American philanthropist
24 Mildred Brown 1905 American journalist and newspaper publisher
25 Mildred Joanne Smith 1921 American actress and singer
26 Mildred Seydell 1889 Journalist
27 Mildred Cram 1889 American writer
28 Mildred H. McAfee 1900 American academic
29 Mildred Lewis Rutherford 1851 Educator, author, historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
30 Mildred Oliphant South African politician
31 Mildred Lillie 1915 American judge
32 Mildred Cable 1878 Christian missionary in Central Asia
33 Mildred Pope 1872 English philologist
34 Mildred Aldrich 1853 American journalist and writer
35 Mildred Cleghorn 1910 Chairperson of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe
36 Mildred Barnes Bliss 1879 American art collector and philanthropist
37 Mildred Miller 1924 Singer
38 Mildred Trotter 1899 American anthropologist
39 Mildred C. Crump 1939 American politician
40 Mildred Parten 1902 American sociologist
41 Mildred Shay 1911 American actress
42 Mildred Brown Schrumpf 1903
43 Mildred Anne Butler 1858 Irish artist
44 Mildred Scheel 1932 German physician
45 Mildred McDaniel 1933 Athletics competitor
46 Mildred Edie Brady 1906 American journalist
47 Mildred Fox 1971 Irish politician
48 Mildred Darby 1867
49 Mildred Inez Caroon Bailey 1919 American Brigadier general
50 Mildred Couper 1887 Composer and pianist
51 Mildred Albert 1905 American fashion commentator, modeling agency director, fashion show producer, radio and television personality, and society columnist
52 Mildred Howard 1945 American artist
53 Mildred Bangs Wynkoop 1905 American theologian
54 Mildred Roethof 1969
55 Mildred Savage 1919 Author from the United States
56 Mildred Anderson Singer
57 Mildred Wiley 1901 American high jumper
58 Mildred Wolfe 1912 United States artist based out of Jackson, Mississippi
59 Mildred Mottahedeh 1908 American businessman
60 Mildred Paxton Moody 1897 First Lady of Texas
61 Mildred Barya 1976 Ugandan poet
62 Mildred Methvin 1952 American lawyer and judge
63 Mildred Mangxola 1944 South African musician
64 Mildred Walker 1905 American writer
65 Mildred Adams Fenton 1899 American scientist
66 Mildred Warwick 1922 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
67 Mildred Meacham 1924 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
68 Mildred Constantine 1913 American curator
69 Mildred Allen 1932 Soprano
70 Mildred Okwo Nigerian film director and producer
71 Mildred Earp 1925 American baseball player
72 Mildred Ames 1919 American writer
73 Mildred Ladner Thompson 1918 American writer
74 Mildred Jordan 1901 American writer
75 Mildred B. Davis 1930 American writer
76 Mildred Hermann 1891 American lawyer
77 Mildred L. Batchelder 1901 American librarian
78 Mildred Clinton 1914
79 Mildred T. Stahlman 1922 American physician
80 Mildred Shapley Matthews 1915
81 Mildred Ellen Orton 1911 American businesswoman
82 Mildred Adams 1894 Journalist, translator, writer
83 Mildred Breed 1947 American contract bridge player
84 Mildred Grosberg Bellin 1908 American writer
85 Mildred Schwab 1917 American politician
86 Mildred Ester Mathias 1906 American botanist
87 Mildred Barker Shaker musician, scholar, religious leader, and manager from the Alfred and Sabbathday Lake villages
88 Mildred Valley Thornton 1890 Canadian artist
89 Mildred Blount 1907
90 Mildred Archer 1911 British art historian
91 Mildred Mann 1904 American writer
92 Mildred Muis 1968 Dutch medley and freestyle swimmer
93 Mildred Callahan Jones 1943 American businessman
94 Mildred Veitch 1889 English horticulturist
95 Mildred Bendall 1891 French artist
96 Mildred Fizzell 1915 Athletics competitor
97 Mildred Clingerman 1918 American writer
98 Mildred Fahrni 1900
99 Mildred Seeley 1918 American writer
100 Mildred Gover 1905 US-american film actress
101 Mildred Vorpahl Baass 1917 Poet
102 Mildred Noble 1921 American writer and activist
103 Mildred Pabón 1957 American judge
104 Mildred Rebstock 1919 American chemist
105 Mildred Barry Hughes 1902 First woman elected as New Jersey State Senator
106 Mildred Barry Garvin 1929 American politician
107 Mildred Iatrou Morgan
108 Mildred Sanderson 1889 Mathematician
109 Mildred Horn American screenwriter and critic
110 Mildred Weisenfeld 1921 American activist
111 Mildred Doran Aviatrix
112 Mildred Dover 1944 Canadian politician
113 Mildred Z Solomon American bioethicist
114 Mildred Christina Akosiwor Fugar 1938 A former First Lady of Ghana and also the wife to Joseph Arthur Ankrah
115 Mildred Freeman 1908
116 Mildred Coles 1920 American actress (1920-1995)
117 Mildred Sampson 1933 New Zealand distance runner
118 Mildred Ruiz-Sapp American actress
119 Mildred Pierce
120 Mildred Griffiths 1894 Set decorator
121 Mildred Holland 1869 American actress
122 Henry Mildred 1795 South Australian farmer, politician
123 Mildred Villafañe
124 Henry Hay Mildred 1839 Australian lawyer (1839-1920)
125 Mildred Law 1924
126 Mildred Mitchell-Bateman 1922 African-American psychiatrist and medical administrator
127 Mildred Alango 1989 Olympic taekwondo practitioner
128 Mildred Buxton British countess
129 Mildred E. Gibbs 1850
130 Mildred Persinger 1918 American feminist and international activist for non-governmental organizations.
131 Mildred Portney Chase 1921 American musician
132 Mildred F. Taylor 1905 New York politician
133 Mildred O'Neill 1914 Wife of American politician
134 Mildred Jeffrey 1910 American activist
135 Mildred Barber Abel 1902 American politician
136 Mildred Feinberg 1899 American | Painter
137 Mildred Scott Olmsted
138 Mildred Gordon 1920 American microbiologist
139 Mildred Masterson McNeilly 1910 American author
140 Mildred Amelia Woodbine Pomare 1877 Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki; community leader
141 Mildred K. Nobles 1903 Canadian mycologist
142 Mildred Steinbach 1906
143 Mildred Lager 1900 American pioneer
144 Mildred Gostling 1873 English chemist
145 Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham 1840 19th-century American traveler and journalist
146 Mildred June 1905 American actress
147 Mildred McMillen 1884 US-American woodcutter
148 Mildred Odwako 1980
149 Mildred Friedman 1929
150 Mildred Milliea
151 Mildred Stratton WIlson 1909 American zoologist
152 Mildred Annie Trent 1883 Cook, tearooms manager, community worker
153 Mildred W. Pelzer 1889
154 Mildred Bright 1892 American actor (1892-1967)
155 Mildred Thulin 1941 Swedish politician
156 Mildred Gottfriedson
157 Mildred Burrage
158 Mildred Droppa Loucky 1915
159 Mildred Moore
160 Mildred Bunting Miller 1892
161 Mildred Richardson 1893
162 Mildred Clary 1931 French radio producer, musicologist and luth player