Billee
Billee was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 619 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Billee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Billee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,372, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1956, the peak
Billee peaked in 1956, when 22 girls were given it, #2,394 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,372 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,758 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,650 | 4.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,465 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,841 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,367 | 3.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,205 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,040 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,355 | 3.9 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,100 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 9 | #5,089 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,802 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,860 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,521 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,623 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,712 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,678 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,917 | 3.1 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,333 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,216 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,501 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,394 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,782 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,699 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,733 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,624 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,417 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,783 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,406 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,151 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,030 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,066 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,405 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,842 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,167 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,599 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,239 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,321 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,205 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,464 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,130 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,753 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,928 | 16.3 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,287 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,823 | 17.8 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,211 | 13.1 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,120 | 14.2 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,769 | 18.8 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,398 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,719 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,887 | 17.7 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,293 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,169 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,185 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,981 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,055 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,744 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,659 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,055 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,327 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,974 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,169 | 8.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Billee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Billee has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Billee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Billee, and how old are they?
An estimated 263 Americans named Billee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 56 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 385 people named Billee (336 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 305 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Billee?
Billee is a less common spelling of Billie: SSA has recorded 619 Billee and 135,300 Billie since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 141,188 babies since 1880, Billee is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 422 babies recorded by SSA was a Billee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Billee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Billee and names like it
- Compare Billee and BillieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBillee peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Billee since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Billee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Billee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.