Billie
Billie is ranked 694th among girls in 2024 (405 births). Its best rank was 79th, in 1929–1930.
- Rank in 2024
- #694up 171 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4050.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19303,241 births
- Best rank
- #79first in 1929
- Since 1886
- 134,876people given the name
The story in the numbers
103,252 girls have been named Billie in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 3,241 births — 0.29% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1930s alone account for 23%. It has spent 115 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 7 of them in the top 100.
Billie is used for both sexes: 23% of its bearers are boys (31,624), most of them born around 1930.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Billie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 34 | |
| 1890s | 233 | |
| 1900s | 988 | |
| 1910s | 4,357 | |
| 1920s | 18,471 | |
| 1930s | 23,297 | |
| 1940s | 16,371 | |
| 1950s | 11,638 | |
| 1960s | 7,665 | |
| 1970s | 9,976 | |
| 1980s | 4,310 | |
| 1990s | 2,141 | |
| 2000s | 1,084 | |
| 2010s | 1,158 | |
| 2020s | 1,529 |
In 1930, its biggest year
Billie was the 79th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1930 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1930.
Names that rose and fell with Billie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Normapeak 1931
- Beliapeak 1931
- Veliapeak 1929
- Lupepeak 1927
- Lavonnepeak 1935
- Colenepeak 1931
- Bettypeak 1930
- Nadeanpeak 1931
Other spellings in the data
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.