How rare is the name Billie?

55,679 people in the United States have the first name Billie, about 1 in 5,425. It ranks #837 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

BILLIE

#837

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
55,679
About
1 in 5,425
This common or more
67.4%
Who bears it

Of the 55,679 people named Billie, 84% reported their origin as White, 8.5% as Black and 3.5% as two or more races. 85.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Billie peaked in 1930, when 4,715 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1930
Births that year
4,715
In 2025*
422 ▼91%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 135,300 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Billie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #139. The largest share of babies named Billie, 40.2%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#980157
1890s#787342
1900s#4641,202
1910s#3836,013
1920s#17028,019
1930s#13933,000
1940s#26420,113
1950s#41613,821
1960s#5479,343
1970s#44611,179
1980s#7995,061
1990s#1,4532,523
2000s#2,7981,282
2010s#3,0591,254
2020s#1,5821,991
Before 19010.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–2719.5%
Silent Generation 1928–4540.2%
Baby boom 1946–6419.2%
Generation X 1965–8012.4%
Millennials 1981–964.4%
Generation Z 1997–121.6%
2013 and later2.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Billie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Billie has been most common in Oklahoma (4.9×), Arkansas (4.3×), and Kentucky (2.9×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.06×).

125,687 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Billie

#835 Vera · 55,795#836 Dwayne · 55,729#838 Cassidy · 55,593#839 Angelo · 55,360

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Billie, most common first.

#9,482 Billi · 1,463#9,763 Billye · 1,404#24,850 Billee · 385#29,154 Bille · 305

Also a last name

As a last name, Billie ranks #15,910 of 156,621, with 1,762 people. See Billie as a last name

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