Millie

Millie sounds like a name called through a screen door at dinnertime. Traditionally a nickname for Millicent, Mildred, or Emilia, it has broken free and now stands on its own, particularly in Britain, where it has been a top-ten fixture, and increasingly in the United States, where it holds around the top 86. Stranger Things sent it soaring. The name carries a specific warmth, jam-jar domestic, with just enough vintage charm to feel considered rather than cutesy. It is the name of a girl who keeps a small notebook, names every stuffed animal, and will, at some point, cut her own bangs with kitchen scissors and announce it was intentional.