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Billi vs Billye

American parents have registered 3,472 Billyes since 1880, against 1,746 Billis. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Billi against Billye, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Billi Billye

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 111 years in which either name was published, Billi for 58 years and Billye for 53 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Billi Billye
Total US births 1,7463,472
Most in one year 84161
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,6001,100
Median age today 4977
Peak year 19761930
Best rank 1,297th girls556th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19151907
Girls / boys 1,741 / 53,360 / 112

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Billyes alive today are over 77; half the Billis are over 49. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Billi and Billye.