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[Opinions] Millicent
What are your thoughts on Millicent? I recently saw the film ‘A Quiet Place’ and the actress who plays the eldest child, Regan, is called Millicent. I thought it was refreshing!

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It's okay. Not really my style.The image I get from Millicent is a prim and proper Victorian high society woman.
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I'm Millie, not Millicent, but as a child I was always asked if Millicent was my full name. In fact, when I was Christened, my parents asked if they wanted my name to be Millicent (though they were happy that they'd put Millie on my birth certificate and wanted to stick with that).My younger sister is Ellie. We went through a period growing up calling each other elongated names - as oppose to nicknames - so for a long while she was Eleanore and I was Millicent. Now we're older, we're "Elle and Mill", but I appreciate longer names with nickname potential rather than putting nicknames straight on the birth certificate.That being said though... Despite everything... Still can't get behind Millicent personally. I just don't think it's ready for a revival, maybe it never will because I don't think it has the sound, spunk or personality to hold it's own in today's world. It's very 'bread and butter pudding' and white net curtains.
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I’ve never known a Millie who wasn’t just Millie, so I’m surprised people asked you if you were Millicent! I get what you’re saying about it not holding up today, though I think it might come back into style in the next ten years or so, but I love the description of it being very bread and butter pudding!
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I like it but it makes me think of Maleficent. I love the nickname Millie.
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Oh, I hasn’t even thought of Maleficent, haha.
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I adore Millicent! It evokes a gown swishing throughout a stately Victorian house.
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I agree!
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I think it's a good name, and usable. Refreshing - maybe, if it didn't become Millie so readily. Also it's not a favorite for me because it just doesn't strike me the right way aesthetically. I don't like how it reminds of milli- words like millipede and millimeter, and I don't like the "lis" sound when it is spelled with a C like in delicious or license, and I don't like the resemblance to -cent adjectives like magnificent, decent, liquescent.Since its spelling is the problem for me, and the things I don't like about the spelling have no connection to its etymology, I like to "fix" it into a name I do like: Mellisant or Melisant (I like the double L because it dissociates it from Melissa better). There! no Millie / Milly, no thousandths, no malice or license, and no quality of "millicence." And it just seems warmer, less stiff and prissy to me, too.

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Mellisant is so medieval looking, I love it! Millicent reminds me of a lot of things too and I think that’s why I could never really get behind it, but I think that’s changing now.
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I always liked the name Millicent, but I hate the NN Millie. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I can't think of what else you could shorten it to, though. And yeah, that would be an issue for me, because everyone in my family gets a shortened name or nickname.
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I normally say that nicknames are avoidable (my name is three syllables and my mother would just correct people when they shortened it) but actually I don’t think Milly is avoidable here!
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I'd call her Milton.
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Haha, how adorable!
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I always think of “Millicent and the Wind” when I hear it, and I think it was a brilliant choice for that story. It’s crisp and refreshing and whirly and kind of blustery... The first part is a little heavy, but the other two syllables lighten it right up. And Milly is a sweet nn. I didn’t even think of Minnie working for it, but it’s so cute!

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I’ve never heard of Millicent and the Wind! I have to say I much prefer Minnie to Milly.
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I love Millicent; it’s one of my favorite names. It has a beautiful sound, strong meaning, and good history.
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Thank you!
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It's not terrible, but I think I associate it too much with Millicent Bulstrode from Harry Potter, a minor character with a memorably unpleasant physical description.
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I actually think of Millicent Bulstrode too!
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I love Millicent - more to due to its lengthy history and international spelling & phonetic variations - Millie & Mélisande (Melisond); Amalasuintha, Sondra, Sandra, even Sandy, Cindy & even Cynthia. In some ways it is "as much" or 'more' "what one can do" with a name that brings as much fun and magic - as in so many cases our names are spoken (heard) presumably more often than read (seen). Adults "Name-Bully" children by assigning a name - then calling the child some other form of it. Yet this would usually occur with little thought. A teacher may call the child a different form than the child's given name. A sports coach a different form; a catechism teacher a different form; a scouts leader, yet another different form - etcetera. Peers from any of these groups may ascertain one form of the name and continue using it. I may open new topic on this during the weekend.

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I’m glad you like the name, but a lot of the others you mentioned aren’t related to it! I think I understand your second and third paragraphs but I don’t think I understand the relevance of them here. I guess you’re going off on a tangent - I’d love to know how you got there. I know I’ve said it before, but please try to make your meaning and intention clearer.
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Check your PMs.This is all down to misunderstanding. I literally just wanted to understand what you were trying to say.

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I like it, I agree it sounds refreshing:) My cousin has a baby girl named Millicent Brook nn Minnie.
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I’m not normally a fan of Brook, but Millicent BrookMinnie” is adorable!
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I hate Millicent, imo its horribly ugly. Millie is a million times better.
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Millie is painfully popular here!
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It's okay. It reminds me of dental floss for some reason, and also of the word "militant." And it sounds very British to me. Was it very popular there at any point? It's never been common here.I agree it is an interesting name to see on a little girl, provided she doesn't go by "Millie".
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It was in the charts here from 1996-2009, but the highest position it ever reached was 273. I don’t know about its popularity from before 96. Yeah, I think Millie kind of takes away from it!
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