Bill
Bill is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. Its best rank was 57th, in 1931.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19474,681 births
- Best rank
- #57in 1931
- Since 1880
- 160,457people given the name
The story in the numbers
160,457 boys have been named Bill in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 4,681 births — 0.26% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 22 births in 2024, against 4,681 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1940s alone account for 24%. It has spent 114 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 29 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Bill | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 600 | |
| 1890s | 789 | |
| 1900s | 1,513 | |
| 1910s | 6,599 | |
| 1920s | 22,289 | |
| 1930s | 32,336 | |
| 1940s | 37,756 | |
| 1950s | 23,878 | |
| 1960s | 25,134 | |
| 1970s | 5,205 | |
| 1980s | 1,815 | |
| 1990s | 1,153 | |
| 2000s | 845 | |
| 2010s | 423 | |
| 2020s | 122 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Bill was the 76th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Bill
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bobpeak 1959
- Donpeak 1946
- Jimmiepeak 1934
- Genepeak 1937
- Doylepeak 1931
- Geraldpeak 1942
- Donaldpeak 1934
- Sammiepeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.