Girls' name · since 1939
Milicent
106 babies named Milicent in U.S. Social Security records since 1939, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 106
- total births
- 1939–2019
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 49%
- born in that decade
106 girls have been named Milicent since 1939, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Milicent has 106 recorded births among girls since 1939, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1939 to 2019.
- 106 total births
- 1939–2019 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 49% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Milicent's 106 recorded births place it above 63% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Milicent's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Milicent splits its recorded history at 1969: 59% of all births land in the more recent half, 41% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1939 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1971 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Milicent popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1939–2019
- Peak year (1971)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 81 years of records
Milicent by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Milicent's strongest decade.
52 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 49% of all-time use.
Milicent births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1930s 5
1930s
5 births
- 1950s 11
1950s
11 births
- 1960s
1960s
33 births
- 1970s
1970s
52 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 52 births (49% of all-time use).
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- Milicent's decade-level peak was the 1970s (52 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1939–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Milicent: Baby Name Since 1939 - 106 Births, Peak 1971." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/milicent. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Milicent draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.