Billyjoe — boys' name
398 babies named Billyjoe in U.S. Social Security records since 1963, with the highest year being 1981. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Billyjoe was born in this single decade.
28 babies were named Billyjoe in 1981 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Billyjoe
The Social Security Administration has registered 398 babies named Billyjoe between 1963 and 2014, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Billyjoe currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 28 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Billyjoe performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 164 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Billyjoe shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Billyjoe in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Billyjoe in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 398 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Billyjoe at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Billyjoe popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1963
- Peak year (1981)
- 28
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
398 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1981 with 28 births in a single year.
Billyjoe by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 164 births that decade — 41% of Billyjoe's all-time total
Billyjoe decade highlights
- Peak decade 164 births
- Runner-up 120 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Billyjoe's strongest decade
164 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Billyjoe by state
Where Billyjoe concentrates geographically — total births since 1963
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 7 | 1.8% |
7 of 398 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1963–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.