How popular is “Billie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Billie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Billie” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Billie” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Billie” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Billie” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Billie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Billie” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	10	0.000049632		10	-100%
1881	8	0.000041518		8	-100%
1882	20	0.00009028		20	-100%
1884	18	0.000073934		18	-100%
1885	15	0.000062278		15	-100%
1886	20	0.000078334	8	12	-20%
1887	19	0.000076801	7	12	-26%
1888	20	0.000066784	6	14	-40%
1889	27	0.000093443	13	14	-4%
1890	17	0.000056403	9	8	6%
1891	11	0.000038371	11		100%
1892	24	0.000071776	15	9	25%
1893	30	0.000092244	18	12	20%
1894	31	0.000091529	18	13	16%
1895	36	0.000102558	23	13	28%
1896	55	0.000153853	41	14	49%
1897	44	0.000126817	28	16	27%
1898	54	0.000141563	43	11	59%
1899	40	0.000117913	27	13	35%
1900	100	0.000222095	76	24	52%
1901	66	0.000190855	52	14	58%
1902	84	0.000217204	70	14	67%
1903	103	0.000270199	83	20	61%
1904	86	0.000213143	67	19	56%
1905	139	0.000327891	112	27	61%
1906	148	0.00034543	127	21	72%
1907	136	0.000292228	118	18	74%
1908	167	0.000341759	139	28	66%
1909	173	0.000338404	144	29	66%
1910	205	0.000347039	165	40	61%
1911	206	0.000319738	169	37	64%
1912	334	0.000338035	258	76	54%
1913	372	0.000327145	289	83	55%
1914	451	0.000318425	326	125	45%
1915	638	0.000348172	468	170	47%
1916	782	0.000404256	565	217	45%
1917	864	0.000430547	618	246	43%
1918	1015	0.000467503	709	306	40%
1919	1146	0.000543065	790	356	38%
1920	1425	0.000629794	902	523	27%
1921	1651	0.000707216	1104	547	34%
1922	1720	0.000751369	1105	615	28%
1923	2015	0.000875143	1245	770	24%
1924	2481	0.001041732	1599	882	29%
1925	2817	0.001207302	1828	989	30%
1926	3325	0.001448231	2170	1155	31%
1927	3870	0.001668565	2550	1320	32%
1928	4094	0.001810753	2777	1317	36%
1929	4621	0.002107966	3191	1430	38%
1930	4715	0.002120733	3241	1474	37%
1931	4264	0.002026242	2921	1343	37%
1932	3826	0.001812161	2635	1191	38%
1933	3522	0.001761487	2483	1039	41%
1934	3596	0.001731497	2559	1037	42%
1935	3093	0.001479975	2248	845	45%
1936	2813	0.001353981	1990	823	41%
1937	2649	0.001243271	1937	712	46%
1938	2434	0.001100076	1746	688	43%
1939	2088	0.000947608	1537	551	47%
1940	1965	0.000853352	1485	480	51%
1941	1998	0.000820054	1554	444	56%
1942	2268	0.000830216	1829	439	61%
1943	2422	0.000858087	1994	428	65%
1944	2168	0.000805924	1763	405	63%
1945	1849	0.00069697	1556	293	68%
1946	1984	0.000620911	1635	349	65%
1947	1994	0.000553532	1653	341	66%
1948	1835	0.000531496	1546	289	69%
1949	1630	0.000467749	1356	274	66%
1950	1566	0.000447	1315	251	68%
1951	1628	0.000441942	1420	208	74%
1952	1625	0.000427856	1389	236	71%
1953	1562	0.000405331	1333	229	71%
1954	1525	0.000383098	1279	246	68%
1955	1282	0.000319296	1092	190	70%
1956	1348	0.000326943	1125	223	67%
1957	1209	0.00028771	990	219	64%
1958	1041	0.00025182	863	178	66%
1959	1035	0.000248918	832	203	61%
1960	969	0.00023328	782	187	61%
1961	906	0.000218719	734	172	62%
1962	841	0.000208407	654	187	56%
1963	850	0.000214744	660	190	55%
1964	1088	0.000279864	897	191	65%
1965	884	0.000243832	723	161	64%
1966	891	0.000256355	721	170	62%
1967	1002	0.000295149	857	145	71%
1968	968	0.000286525	815	153	68%
1969	944	0.000271629	822	122	74%
1970	1256	0.000348259	1104	152	76%
1971	1247	0.000363307	1113	134	79%
1972	1184	0.000376711	1077	107	82%
1973	1236	0.000409694	1092	144	77%
1974	1268	0.000417105	1132	136	79%
1975	1111	0.000367955	1011	100	82%
1976	1110	0.000365817	1000	110	80%
1977	946	0.000297813	843	103	78%
1978	906	0.000285456	785	121	73%
1979	915	0.000275023	819	96	79%
1980	921	0.000267382	802	119	74%
1981	780	0.000225474	667	113	71%
1982	611	0.000174175	514	97	68%
1983	594	0.000171511	520	74	75%
1984	467	0.000133859	387	80	66%
1985	395	0.000110672	331	64	68%
1986	334	0.000093897	283	51	69%
1987	340	0.000094297	285	55	68%
1988	335	0.000090662	289	46	73%
1989	284	0.000073873	232	52	63%
1990	302	0.000076408	235	67	56%
1991	258	0.000066234	212	46	64%
1992	261	0.000067946	220	41	69%
1993	259	0.000068695	217	42	68%
1994	283	0.000076123	241	42	70%
1995	267	0.000072908	229	38	72%
1996	242	0.000066352	202	40	67%
1997	239	0.000065917	213	26	78%
1998	223	0.000060627	198	25	78%
1999	189	0.000051166	174	15	84%
2000	168	0.000044446	146	22	74%
2001	165	0.000044078	143	22	73%
2002	135	0.000036113	116	19	72%
2003	143	0.000037609	127	16	78%
2004	125	0.000032715	98	27	57%
2005	108	0.00002809	85	23	57%
2006	120	0.000030332	95	25	58%
2007	121	0.000030268	105	16	74%
2008	100	0.000025441	89	11	78%
2009	97	0.000025392	80	17	65%
2010	87	0.000023541	73	14	68%
2011	96	0.000026245	86	10	79%
2012	103	0.000028162	91	12	77%
2013	122	0.000033464	110	12	80%
2014	135	0.000036424	123	12	82%
2015	108	0.000029182	98	10	81%
2016	97	0.00002644	97		100%
2017	127	0.000035513	117	10	84%
2018	157	0.000044654	150	7	91%
2019	222	0.00006396	213	9	92%
2020	259	0.000077532	251	8	94%
2021	286	0.000084417	280	6	96%
2022	291	0.000086015	284	7	95%
2023	317	0.000095736	309	8	95%
2024	414	0.00012438	405	9	96%

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