Meanings
- A female given name from Old English.
Queens drop away, while blue-legg'd Maukin lives; / Drones thrive when bees are burnt within their hives; / And courtly Mildred dies, while country Madge survives.
~1625 Francis Quarles, Elegy on Lady Luckyn1 more example
One day Dunsford told him her name was Mildred. He had heard one of the other girls in the shop address her. "What an odious name," said Philip. "Why?" asked Dunsford. "I like it." . "It's so pretentious."
1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, Pan Books, published 1973, page 268
Origin
- Old EnglishMildþrȳþ
- EnglishMildred
From the name of an 8th-century English saint, Old English Mildþrȳþ (from milde (“mild”) + þrȳþ (“strength”)).
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Norwegian Mildrid
- Mildridfemale given name
Swedish Mildred, Mildrid
- Mildredfemale given name
- Mildridfemale given name
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Mildred. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mildred
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