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Help[Opinions] Re: Mildred (etc.)
in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans
I don't like Mildred enough to use, but it has a great meaning and I don't mind the sound of it. I've never heard anyone consider it for a child outside of this board, and I've only met one bearer ever: she would have been born around 1910 and went by her middle name.
Millicent reminds me of millipedes and Millicent Bulstrode. Milbrey is interesting, but not that appealing. Milbrow/Milbrough/Milborough seems to have had a fair bit of Victorian usage here in the UK, and I like that better: if it were a passed-down family name I'd definitely consider using it.
Millicent reminds me of millipedes and Millicent Bulstrode. Milbrey is interesting, but not that appealing. Milbrow/Milbrough/Milborough seems to have had a fair bit of Victorian usage here in the UK, and I like that better: if it were a passed-down family name I'd definitely consider using it.
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Thanks -- the earliest example of the name I've found in the USA so far is of a Milbrough, who died in 1773 in North Carolina. The common form seems to have shifted to Milbrey in the USA after 1800. I haven't had time to check the census yet, though, just have Googled the various forms of the name.
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