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Billy
Pronounced /ˈbɪli/
Rank in 2024
#1,048
Born in 2024
210
Peak year
1934 · #20
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:13 in 2024 (#8,334)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 210 boys were named Billy, about 1 in every 8,168.
- It peaked in 1934 with 9,562 babies, ranked #20.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 384,025 boys have been named Billy since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Billy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.8Greatest1901–27
- 7.1Silent1928–45
- 3.0Boomers1946–64
- 2.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.9Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 29,655 babies, 1.77 per 1,000. Silent: 146,112 babies, 7.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 113,029 babies, 3.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 56,615 babies, 2.08 per 1,000. Millennials: 26,228 babies, 0.86 per 1,000. Gen Z: 9,189 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,999 babies, 0.14 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Diminutive and pet-form; from Bill + -y.
- A diminutive of the male given name William.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈbɪli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Billy, CC BY-SA 4.0.