Billie
Billie is a girl's name that peaked in 1930, when it was the 79th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 691st. About 59,000 Billies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Billie
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Billie crossed from boys to girls in 1893, and has stayed there for 133 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 134 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 135,300
- Estimated living today
- 59,000
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1930
- Best rank
- 79th
- Rank in 2025
- 691st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 103,663 / 31,637
How old the living Billies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 135,300 babies given the name since 1880, about 59,000 are alive — 44 in every hundred. Roughly 3,400 of them are children and 30,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 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.
Notable Billies
- Billie Holiday (1915–1959)American jazz singer
- Billie Jean King (born 1943)American tennis player
- Billie Joe Armstrong (born 1972)American rock musician
- Billie Burke (1884–1970)American stage and film actress
- Billie Lourd (born 1992)American actress
- Billie Piper (born 1982)British actress and singer
- Billie Whitelaw (1932–2014)British actress
- Billie Dove (1903–1997)American silent film actress; aviator
People named Billie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Billie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Billie is most concentrated in Oklahoma (4.9×), Arkansas (4.3×), Kentucky (2.9×), Tennessee (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1930
The most popular girls’ names the year Billie peaked:
Billie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Billie | 4,548 | 151st |
| France girls | Billie | 3,255 | 114th |
| Belgium girls | Billie | 2,011 | 28th |
| Scotland girls | Billie | 671 | 100th |
| New Zealand girls | Billie | 428 | 47th |
| Ireland girls | Billie | 235 | 190th |
| England and Wales boys | Billie | 163 | 874th |
| Switzerland girls | Billie | 145 | 236th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Billie | 85 | 178th |
| Belgium boys | Billie | 49 | 575th |
| France boys | Billie | 15 | 4,299th |
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.
Billie: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Billie | 47 | 0.004% | 450th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Billie | 98 | 0.023% | 89th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Billie is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 35 of them.
Billie: rank by region
In 2025, Billie was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Billie | 17 | 147 |
| Flanders | Billie | 714 | 7 |
| Wallonia | Billie | 71 | 35 |
| Brussels | Billie | 159 | 7 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Billie appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (7th), Province of Limburg (11th), Province of Flemish Brabant (28th), Province of Walloon Brabant (32nd), Province of West Flanders (33rd), Province of East Flanders (38th), Province of Namur (50th), Province of Liège (70th), Brussels-Capital Region (159th) and Province of Hainaut (187th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Billie by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 7 | 494th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Billie among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Billie | 12 | 16 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Billie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.