How Many People Are Named Millard?

3,918

people named Millard are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 87,234 people in the US has this name

Based on 16,776 babies named Millard in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,354

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,631

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Peak Year

1922

485 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: MIL-ərd
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

From an occupational English surname which meant "guardian of the mill" in Old English.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.1%
Male
99.9%

Almost all of the babies given the name Millard (99.9%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Millard alive today is about 66 years old, and 71% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 57 and 79 in 2025.

Under 30 200
5.1%
30 to 59 936
23.9%
60 and over 2,782
71%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Millard first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1922, to 485 babies. In 2025, 10 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Millard has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #186, in 1887. In 2025 it ranked #8,031.

Boys
Rank in 2025#8,031
Best rank#186 (1887)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#286 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Millard alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Millard were born in Kentucky than in any other state: about 242 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Millard was given 4.2 times as often in Kentucky, 2.8 times in North Carolina and 2.7 times in West Virginia.

Kentucky 242
North Carolina 228
Georgia 145
Texas 139
Ohio 134
Virginia 132
Tennessee 126
Alabama 123
Pennsylvania 110
West Virginia 99
Florida 89
California 73
New York 72
Louisiana 60
Maryland 46
Illinois 45
Mississippi 43
Oklahoma 43
Michigan 33
Indiana 26
Arkansas 25
New Jersey 19
Missouri 16
South Carolina 15
Maine 8
Kansas 5
Delaware 4
District of Columbia 2
Iowa 1
Massachusetts 1

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