Entry № 6849 · Germanic origin

Milly Milly — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Gentle strength"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "gentle strength".

Milly is a variant spelling of Millie, meaning gentle strength.

A fresh spelling of a well-loved name, it keeps the familiar sound with a look all its own.

Gentle strength — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Milly
Transliteration
Milly
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Milly stands.

Milly does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Millys before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Milly.

The number behind Milly.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Milly reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.