Millicent

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What are your thoughts on Millicent, its a name I've always loved but disregarded when naming both dds but I just heard it on cbeebies and it reminded me my love for it.

I have a friend called Millicent, she's always called Milly though. Long before Milly was fashionable.

Too harsh and unfriendly sounding.

Useable and very cool imo. Useable because of the obvious popular nn's Milly/Mila if she dislikes it, cool because it will make most people think of Suffragist Fawcett. In fact with the current popularity of a lot of other retro/vintage names (Clara/Ivy/Ada/Nancy/Mabel/Florence etc), I can't figure out why Millicent isn't more popular - maybe because it has harsher consonant sounds which are less fashionable?

Millicent sounds like it means thousand hundred

I love it, I remember years ago trying to get a friend to call her DD Millicent instead of Melissa (which was to be shortened to Milly). I didn’t win unfortunately, but still love it.

I like it probably because a read a book when I was younger with that name in.

It sounds like one of the names that should come round again.

It’s sounds quite similar to Militant to me...

I love Millicent, it's a great name

Makes me think of maleficent, and I like it even more.

This is all a bit outing if anyone recognises me but-
It is my older daughter's name. She is 14. She has a love/hate relationship with it

In her first week at secondary- it was mis-heard as Maleficent (something we had never considered)- and it stuck (at home, anyway- because she was being properly moody at the time - it suited her).

I love it.

Her middle name is Elizabeth, which is interesting because that is the name of Millicent Fawcett's sister.

And I have a dd2 who is called Philippa.
Guess what Millicent F's daughter was called?

(And I didn't plan the suffragist connection, by the way- the names were just ones I liked).

Sweet but strong, and fits with other late Victorian fashionable names -the only thing that would put me off is she would end up being called Milly and it’s such a popular nn for all the Emily/Emilia/Amelia/Milas knocking around...

Reminds me of centipedes.

A bit ugly imo.

Should say - ugly in a quite cool way.

Like Audrey or Dorothy, which I think are a bit ugly but really like.

Millicent could grow on me like they did

Nothing wrong with Milly as a nickname.

I know 3 baby/toddler Millicents, all known as Milly. I like it, it suits them all

Too frilly and elaborate-sounding for me.

If I had a baby girl tomorrow it would be a strong contender for a name.

I love it.

I like Millicent.
I does remind me of malevolent/millipede/malfeasance. I suspect that all says something about me not the name

It’s unusual for such an interesting name that the most obvious nickname is the very used Milly. You’d think there would be more somehow.

Milli = thousand
Cent = hundred

I love an old lady name, but Millicent is a step too far for me (like Ethel, Dorcas etc).

Unless you're going to call her Millicent Margaret Amanda.

So cool

I don’t like it, and Millie is a nickname is just dull, there are 100s of them.

I like it.

Only slight hesitation is that it might be a bit close to Maleficent. However, she is a good guy these days, and a rather cool namesake after Angelina Jolie played her. So maybe not a negative association at all.