Mildmay
English edit
Etymology edit
Two possible origins:
- From Old English milde (“mild”) + mægden (“girl, virgin”), a nickname for a young woman.
- From Old English milde (“mild”) + dēma (“judge”), a nickname for a merciful judge or person.[1]
Proper noun edit
Mildmay (countable and uncountable, plural Mildmays)
- A surname from Old English.
- A community in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Mildmay is the 223652nd most common surname in England, belonging to 6 individuals.
References edit
- ^ Mark Antony Lower (1860) “Mildmay”, in Patronymica Britannica. A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom., London: John Russell Smith, […]; Lewes: G. P. Bacon, page 225, column 1.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Mildmay”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 589.
- Forebears