Billie

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Billi in IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Billie is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name17K records spelled Billie3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Billié

• German given name7.7K records spelled Billie2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, United Kingdom

  Also written Billié

• Italian given name1.1K records spelled Billie2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, San Marino, Canada

  Also written Billié

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Billie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• , g Variant of Billy (see pBill), now mainly used for girls, and sometimes bestowed at baptism as a female equivalent of William.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, A male or female given name from the Germanic languages derived from Bill, the diminutive of William.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Billie är ursprungligen en engelsk feminin smekform till Bill (→ William). Jämför Billy. En känd namnbärare är jazzsångerskan Billie Holiday (1915–1959), som dock hade Eleanora som officiellt förnamn. En nutida känd namnbärare är den amerikanska artisten Billie Eilish (f. 2001).

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• English: variant of Billy (see BILL ), now mainly used for girls, and sometimes bestowed at baptism as a feminine equivalent of WILLIAM .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 145 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Billie Burkeb. 1884USAmerican stage and film actress (1884-1970)
• Billie Doveb. 1903USAmerican silent film actress; aviator (1903–1997)
• Billie Holidayb. 1915USAmerican jazz singer (1915–1959)
• Billie Hayesb. 1924USAmerican actress (1924-2021)
• Billie Whitelawb. 1932GBBritish actress (1932–2014)
• Billie Jean Kingb. 1943USAmerican tennis player (born 1943)
• Billie Joe Armstrongb. 1972USAmerican rock musician (born 1972)
• Billie Piperb. 1982GBBritish actress and singer (born 1982)
• Billie Lourdb. 1992USAmerican actress
• Billie Eilishb. 2001USAmerican singer-songwriter (born 2001)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 730 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Billie?

We estimate roughly 181 thousand people bear Billie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Billie have the most bearers?

We estimate about 171 thousand people bear Billie in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled billie.

Where is Billie most common?

Billie is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Billie compared with other names?

In the United States, Billie is the 535th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Billie a male or female name?

Billie is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Billie mean?

Recorded meaning: feminine form of Bill/Billy/William; also diminutive of Wilhelmina