Billye
Billye was last recorded in 2003, when 7 babies were given it; 3,472 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Billye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (31% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 67 and 84.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Billye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Billye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,608, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
161 babies in 1930, the peak
Billye peaked in 1930, when 161 babies were given it (151 girls, #556 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | #12,608 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,280 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,598 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,673 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,136 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,550 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,851 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,356 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 13 | #5,126 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,560 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,433 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,162 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,875 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,621 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,138 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,670 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,780 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,794 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,183 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,904 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,560 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,713 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,965 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,289 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,029 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,398 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,098 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,489 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,798 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,982 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,549 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,439 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,461 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,411 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,454 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 58 | #1,185 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 62 | #1,140 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 63 | #1,071 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 54 | #1,062 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 76 | #874 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 66 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 75 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 64 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 51 | #999 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 60 | #905 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 60 | #914 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 67 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 69 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 85 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 85 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1933 | 102 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1932 | 79 | #761 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 118 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1930 | 151 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1929 | 150 | #559 | 0.13 |
| 1928 | 134 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1927 | 148 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 133 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 143 | #610 | 0.12 |
| 1924 | 107 | #719 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 89 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1922 | 78 | #831 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 55 | #1,010 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 51 | #1,040 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,573 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,341 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,150 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,579 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,910 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,780 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,671 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,228 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,174 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,451 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,659 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Billye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,472 Americans recorded as Billye, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Billye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Billye, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 31% of the 3,472 Americans ever recorded as Billye. The median Billye alive today is 77 years old; half are between 67 and 84.
The 2020 Census counted 1,404 people named Billye (1,336 women and girls, 68 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,466 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 388 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 461 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 139 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 42 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Billye born?
The states with the most babies named Billye are Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,198 | not ranked | 6.1× |
| Oklahoma | 520 | not ranked | 7.4× |
| Arkansas | 138 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Mississippi | 92 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 57 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| West Virginia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Billye is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Billye is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 7.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Billye with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 141,188 babies since 1880, Billye is the second most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 422 babies recorded by SSA was a Billye (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 Billye
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 Billye and names like it
- Compare Billye and BillieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sBillye peaked in 1930.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Billye since 1910.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Billye.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Billye alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.