MEANING & HISTORY
What does Mildred mean?
Mildred continues Old English Mildthryth, whose two elements concern mildness and strength. The name was borne by an early English saint, and the Cebuano account documents later borrowing through English.
Its apparently contrasting components belong to an old compound personal name rather than a modern slogan about temperament. Mildred and similarly spelled newer forms should be compared through documented relationships, not by assigning additional meanings to whichever letters happen to resemble familiar English words.
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Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
From English Mildred, from the name of an 8th-century English saint, from Old English Mildþryþ, from mild (“mild"”) + þryþ (“strength”).
a female given name from English
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EnglishEtymology & source
From the name of an 8th-century English saint, Old English Mildþrȳþ (from milde (“mild”) + þrȳþ (“strength”)).
A female given name from Old English.
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Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
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Mildred in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Mildred
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Eldred·Transferred surname from Old English Ealdræd
- Kindred♂English kinship or relatedness word
- Wilfred♂Will and peace
- Alfred♂Elf counsel
- Elfred·Counterpart of the documented name Elfrida
- Marfred·Welsh form in the Mererid pearl-name family
- Miles♂From Milo; possibly connected with “dear”
- Millard♂Guardian of the mill, through an English surname
What rhymes with Mildred?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Mildred further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Mildred (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Mildred (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.