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Billi

About 1,746 American babies have been named Billi since 1915, most of them around 1976. It has not appeared in the national data since 2020. About 1,600 Billis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 49.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Billi boys named Billi

By the numbers

Total US births
1,746
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
49
Peak year
1976
Best rank
1,297th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1915
Girls / boys
1,741 / 5

How old the living Billis are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,746 babies given the name since 1915, about 1,600 are alive — 93 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1976 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Germanic languages

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Billi is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Billi is most concentrated in Ohio (6.8×), Iowa (6.5×), Pennsylvania (4.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1976

The most popular girls’ names the year Billi peaked:

All the names of 1976

Billi elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Billi 64 2,189th
England and Wales boys Billi 9 4,805th
France boys Billi 5 5,633rd
Scotland girls Billi 3 810th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Billi against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.