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Billie

Girls' name · Mid-century revival

Living in the US
~62,500 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#691 among girls
Births in 2025
422 135,300 since 1880
Typical age
66 years, median

Billie popularity over time

Billie rank by birth year, 1886–2025Billie ranked #828 in 1886 and #691 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #79, in 1929.#100#1,000#691best #79 in 192918901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1886–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1930: 4,715 births recorded as Billie. The name is already in use in 1880, where the data begins. It has held a top-100 place in 7 separate years.

In 2025 it ranked #691 with 422 births. The ten-year change is +3.9×.

Babies named Billie per yearPeaks at 4,715 births in 1930.4,715 in 1930018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Billie?

About 62,500 people named Billie are alive in the United States today. That is out of 135,300 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 53,500 women and 8,900 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Billie?

The typical living Billie is 66 years old. The 1940s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Billie a mid-century revival name.

Your Billie

Ages of living people named BillieHalf of living Billies are older than 66 and half younger.median 66020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Billie is most common

The name is concentrated in Utah, at 1.9× the national rate. Missouri, California and Arizona follow.

Where Billie is used more than average4 states use the name Billie more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 1.4× the national rateCAUtah: 1.9× the national rateUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: 1.5× the national rateMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: 1.4× the national rateAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Billie is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Utah 52 1.9×
Missouri 59 1.5×
California 389 1.4×
Arizona 64 1.4×

Is Billie a boy's or a girl's name?

77% girls23% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Across the whole record, 76.6% of births under the name were girls. The name has changed sides: it began mostly on one sex and ends mostly on the other.

Billie in England and Wales

ONS recorded 336 births named Billie in 2025, ranking it #151. That is 48% higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Billie comes from

English Wiktionary: given name from Germanic languages.

Notable people named Billie

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001 122
Billie Holiday American jazz singer 1915–1959 89
Billie Jean King American tennis player 1943 77
Billie Joe Armstrong American rock musician 1972 71
Billie Burke American stage and film actress 1884–1970 43
Billie Piper British actress and singer 1982 38
Billie Lourd American actress 1992 38
Billie Whitelaw British actress 1932–2014 32
Photo credits (5)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Billie

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Billie was in 2025.

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