Milly - name meaning, origin

The girl's name Milly \m(il)-ly\ is a variant of Amelia (Latin, Old German), Camilla (Latin), Emily (Latin), Melissa (Greek), Mildred (Old English) and Millicent (Old French), and the meaning of Milly is "industrious, striving; work; rival; laborious; eager; bee; honey; gentle strength; brave strength".

The baby name Milly sounds like Milli, Mille, Milla, Molly, Melly and Mally. Other similar baby names are Billy, Cilly, Gilly, Hilly, Jilly, Lilly, Tilly and Willy.

Milly is a somewhat common first name for women (#3786 out of 4276) and also a somewhat common last name for both men and women (#55433 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census)

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