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Millicent or Mildred? (more)
which would you choose and why? I like Millie but not as a full name. I think Mildred is kind of charming not sure if anyone agrees :P I like Millicent too.
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Millicent by far IMO! I think Mildred reminds me of mildew too much unfortunately. I think I like Millicent in the same sparkly/girly way I like Priscilla.Either way I like the nn Millie a lot too.
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I think Mildred and Millicent are horribly ugly. I would just use Millie as a full name or use Emilia, Amelia, Emily, Emiliana or Camille to give Millie a full name.
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Absolutely love both of these namesI absolutely adore both of these names. Either one would be beautiful and a strong, good name that will age well. With that said I can only pick one, and so I'll go with Mildred simply because the meaning of 'gentle strength' is amazing. But still, either one would be a really good choice.

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I like them both but I slightly prefer Mildred. Millicent makes me think of Maleficent (sp?). I don’t think I have the guts to use the name Mildred in real life.
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I love Millicent. Such a strong name and with the awesome namesake Millicent Fawcett. Mildred is all mildew and dreariness to me. I would fight tooth and nail to prevent either being shortened to Milly though - I find it horribly twee

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Millicent, for no other reason than that it sounds better to me.
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Mildred makes me think of mildew. Millicent is a huge improvement. Millie is cute.

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I like Mildred but not so much that I'd consider using it. The impression I get from it is basically a mix of what mirfak and Wordsmith said about it. If I think of it in a positive way, it reminds me of a temperate rain forest and old books (and unapologetically big hair?); if I think of it from a negative angle, it reminds me of mildew and rot and dread (maybe I'm getting the hair association from dreadlocks?).Millicent is okay, but it reminds me of 'militant' and images that go along with that...strict, rigid, diligent, a girl with a square jaw, serious, spartan, brusque, an automaton...more vaguely it reminds me of millipedes and money. I think the t ending makes it seem cleaner/crisper/harder.

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Mildred is so much better.
Have you watched the second Harry Potter movie, where Hermione takes polyjuice potion and transform into a cat? That's all I can think of whenever I see/hear Millicent, since the cat's owner is named Millicent...Edit: May I suggest Emilia "Millie" ?

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I like them both but they're so different.
Mildred is charming, but it's also antiquated in this modern world of imagey names chosen for sound - it suffers from word-associations people make. It doesn't bother me, but I don't think I'd name a child this, not yet anyway.
Millicent is prissier and also antiquated but has a shinier image for me. I don't like the cent part and vastly prefer it spelled Melisant. Or even Millisent would be better. But Millicent seems more to me like it could be a baby name than Mildred, at any rate.
Melisant > Mildred > Millicent according to my taste
Melisant > Millicent > Mildred for a baby

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I adore both, but I currently prefer Mildred. It feels more ancient and pagan to me, and unlike Millicent, Mildred evokes moss & brooks & trees & the kind of person who would relish them.
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I like Melisande, which I think Millicent is related too? I also think Millie can come from Melisande. So I guess Millicent.
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Definitely Millicent.My full name is Millie (that's what it says on my birth certificate) but I went through a stage with my sister, Ellie (also full name) that we'd elongate our names and so I became Millicent more often than not, and her Eleanore. While I still call her Eleanore from time to time, we reverted back to our shortened names soon enough.Millie might seem nickname-proof but I probably get called "Mil" more than I get called Millie.I find Mildred clunky, and not in a cute way like Edith. I don't like the sound of all those letters together in that order. I'm not wild about Millicent either. To get Millie, I'd probably pick Camille (cah-MEEL) as a full name but other (less dated options) are Emilie, Emily, Amelie, Amelia, Camila, Camilla, Mila, Milla.
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NT
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I prefer Mildred - shorter, less complicated, less monetary and I had a bad experience with a Millicent once.
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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, which is a different name, yet, here, somehow fuses.

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