Billye · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Billye.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1907

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 80 recorded years as a table

Billye, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1907	22
1908	27
1910	15
1911	14
1912	11
1913	19
1914	17
1915	22
1916	14
1917	28
1918	22
1919	32
1920	43
1921	45
1922	65
1923	74
1924	86
1925	117
1926	112
1927	124
1928	116
1929	134
1930	134
1931	111
1932	74
1933	101
1934	81
1935	81
1936	66
1937	63
1938	54
1939	55
1940	45
1941	53
1942	56
1943	47
1944	57
1945	41
1946	40
1947	35
1948	34
1949	23
1950	25
1951	23
1952	24
1953	21
1954	13
1955	15
1956	17
1957	10
1958	7
1959	11
1960	11
1961	5
1962	5
1963	9
1964	7
1965	7
1966	5
1968	5
1969	8
1970	6
1971	4
1972	7
1973	6
1974	11
1975	10
1976	3
1977	7
1979	8
1980	6
1981	5
1982	5
1983	4
1984	3
1985	3
1986	3
1989	3
1998	4
2003	4

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Billye isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Billye

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2003: 7
Rank in 2003: #12,408
How rare: 1 in 261,020 girls
Since 1907: 3,360

Billye was last recorded in 2003. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1929, at 134 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Billye doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.