Billye
Billye is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 556th, in 1930.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1930151 births
- Best rank
- #556in 1930
- Since 1907
- 3,472people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,360 girls have been named Billye in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 151 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 151 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 32%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 112 boys have also been given it, 3.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Billye | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 16 | |
| 1910s | 172 | |
| 1920s | 1,088 | |
| 1930s | 876 | |
| 1940s | 609 | |
| 1950s | 316 | |
| 1960s | 118 | |
| 1970s | 97 | |
| 1980s | 54 | |
| 1990s | 7 | |
| 2000s | 7 |
In 1930, its biggest year
Billye was the 556th 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 Billye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bettypeak 1930
- Bettyloupeak 1927
- Willodeanpeak 1928
- Margypeak 1929
- Bonnapeak 1928
- Shirliepeak 1935
- Normapeak 1931
- Dolorispeak 1932
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.