Billey
Billey was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 523 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Billey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Billey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,348, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1931, the peak
Billey peaked in 1931, when 24 boys were given it, #1,431 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #6,348 | 2.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,374 | 5.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,628 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,716 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,484 | 6.3 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,577 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,104 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,095 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,122 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,697 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 6 | #3,647 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,599 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,569 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,786 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,762 | 4.4 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,679 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,791 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,871 | 9.0 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,334 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,174 | 7.1 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,282 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,856 | 10.4 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,290 | 7.7 |
| 1942 | 14 | #1,956 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,346 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 13 | #1,991 | 11.2 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,471 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,565 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,408 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,646 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,038 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,390 | 23.2 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,776 | 16.1 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,208 | 11.5 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,431 | 23.1 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,761 | 16.4 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,799 | 16.7 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,172 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,125 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 16 | #1,990 | 14.4 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,101 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,527 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 9 | #2,965 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,039 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,394 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,360 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Billey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Billey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Billey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Billey, and how old are they?
An estimated 163 Americans named Billey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 62 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 202 people named Billey (34 women and girls, 168 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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 Billey?
Billey is a less common spelling of Billy: SSA has recorded 523 Billey and 389,665 Billy since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 390,188 babies since 1880, Billey is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 217 babies recorded by SSA was a Billey (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 Billey
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 Billey and names like it
- Compare Billey and BillyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sBilley peaked in 1931.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Billey since 1910.
- The top names of 1931The year the most babies were named Billey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Billey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.