first name
BILLY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 173,433 people named Billy, 77.2% reported their origin as White, 11.9% as Black and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.8% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Billy peaked in 1934, when 9,659 babies got the name.
At least 389,665 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.
Billy by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #39. The largest share of babies named Billy, 38%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.
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 Billy is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Billy has been most common in Arkansas (5×), Oklahoma (4.5×), and Tennessee (3.4×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.05×).
383,222 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 Billy
Spelled almost the same
6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Billy, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Billy ranks #9,730 of 156,621, with 3,183 people. See Billy as a last name
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