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Millbrae's name combines the surname of banker Darius Ogden Mills with the Scottish word 'brae,' meaning hillside.

In the 1860s Darius Ogden Mills bought land from the Sanchez family, holders of the 1835 Rancho Buri Buri grant, to build his country estate on the San Francisco Peninsula.

Millbrae incorporated on January 14, 1948, when the young city's chief industries were agriculture, floriculture, dairy farming, and porcelain manufacturing.

San Francisco International Airport began on land tied to the Mills estate: 150 acres leased from the Mills family in 1927 became Mills Field, the airport's original name.

Millbrae had a population of 23,216 at the 2020 census, with about 8,100 households averaging 2.76 people each and about 61 percent of homes owner-occupied.

Millbrae is one of the most international cities on the Peninsula: about 48 percent of residents are Asian, about 41 percent were born outside the United States, and nearly half of residents speak a language other than English at home.

The median value of an owner-occupied home in Millbrae is about $1.93 million, among the highest of any city in San Mateo County.

Since 2003, Millbrae station has been the only station served by both BART and Caltrain, and it is the only planned California High-Speed Rail stop between San Francisco and San Jose.

Mills High School is Millbrae's only public high school.

The Sixteen Mile House, built in 1872 by the Sanchez family as a stagecoach rest stop, was moved to Broadway in Millbrae and still operates as a tavern and restaurant.