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How popular is “Billye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Billye” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Billye” 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 “Billye” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Billye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Billye” 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
1907 7 0.000015041 7 100%
1908 9 0.000018418 9 100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 100%
1912 6 0.000006072 6 100%
1913 12 0.000010553 12 100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 100%
1915 22 0.000012006 22 100%
1916 15 0.000007754 15 100%
1917 30 0.00001495 30 100%
1918 26 0.000011975 26 100%
1919 36 0.00001706 36 100%
1920 51 0.00002254 51 100%
1921 55 0.00002356 55 100%
1922 84 0.000036695 78 6 86%
1923 94 0.000040826 89 5 89%
1924 114 0.000047867 107 7 88%
1925 149 0.000063858 143 6 92%
1926 138 0.000060107 133 5 93%
1927 158 0.000068122 148 10 87%
1928 144 0.00006369 134 10 86%
1929 157 0.000071619 150 7 91%
1930 161 0.000072415 151 10 88%
1931 126 0.000059875 118 8 87%
1932 79 0.000037418 79 100%
1933 107 0.000053515 102 5 91%
1934 85 0.000040928 85 100%
1935 85 0.000040672 85 100%
1936 74 0.000035618 69 5 86%
1937 67 0.000031446 67 100%
1938 67 0.000030281 60 7 79%
1939 65 0.000029499 60 5 85%
1940 51 0.000022148 51 100%
1941 64 0.000026268 64 100%
1942 75 0.000027454 75 100%
1943 71 0.000025154 66 5 86%
1944 76 0.000028252 76 100%
1945 54 0.000020355 54 100%
1946 63 0.000019716 63 100%
1947 62 0.000017211 62 100%
1948 58 0.000016799 58 100%
1949 40 0.000011478 40 100%
1950 42 0.000011988 42 100%
1951 41 0.00001113 41 100%
1952 45 0.000011848 45 100%
1953 40 0.00001038 40 100%
1954 25 0.00000628 25 100%
1955 29 0.000007223 29 100%
1956 35 0.000008489 35 100%
1957 21 0.000004997 21 100%
1958 21 0.00000508 15 6 43%
1959 23 0.000005532 23 100%
1960 23 0.000005537 23 100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 100%
1962 15 0.000003717 10 5 33%
1963 18 0.000004548 18 100%
1964 13 0.000003344 13 100%
1965 13 0.000003586 13 100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 100%
1969 14 0.000004028 14 100%
1970 11 0.00000305 11 100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 100%
1974 16 0.000005263 16 100%
1975 15 0.000004968 15 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1977 11 0.000003463 11 100%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 100%

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