Milford
Milford is a boy's name that peaked in 1921, when it was the 397th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 1,900 Milfords are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Milford boys named Milford
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,211
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 71
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 397th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 13 / 8,198
How old the living Milfords are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,211 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,900 are alive — 23 in every hundred. Roughly 6 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Milfords
- Milford Graves (1941–2021)American jazz drummer and percussionist
People named Milford with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Milford is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Milford is most concentrated in Alabama (5.0×), Kentucky (3.7×), Missouri (3.3×), Nebraska (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Milford peaked:
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Milford against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.