Bīll
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bīll is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Swedish bilder, from Old Norse bíldr, from Proto-Germanic *bīþlaz (“axe”). An instrumental derivation of *bītaną (“to bite”). Closely related to bila (“broadaxe”).
- CACanada≈1 in 864(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.2K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #566 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 608 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 864 (inferred from the name graph)
77,823 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bill in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old Swedishbilder(measured from records)
- Old Norsebíldr(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*bīþlaz“axe”(measured from records)
From Old Swedish bilder, from Old Norse bíldr, from Proto-Germanic *bīþlaz (“axe”). An instrumental derivation of *bītaną (“to bite”). Closely related to bila (“broadaxe”).
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bīll counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #232 | 77,823 | 1 in 4.3K | 78K | Bill | 608 |
| CA Canada | #144 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 864 | 2 | Bill | 273 |
| GB United Kingdom | #396 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 17 | Bill | 270 |
| IT Italy | #628 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 26 | Bill | 70 |
| AU Australia | #316 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 3 | Bill | 248 |
| NZ New Zealand | #193 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Bill | 129 |
| SG Singapore | #210 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Bill | 86 |
| IE Ireland | #211 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Bill | 98 |
77,823 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bīll mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Swedish bilder, from Old Norse bíldr, from Proto-Germanic *bīþlaz (“axe”). An instrumental derivation of *bītaną (“to bite”). Closely related to bila (“broadaxe”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- Is Bīll a male or female name?
- Bīll is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Bīll have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 78 thousand people named Bīll, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bill.
- How common is the name Bīll?
- In the United States, the national register counted 77,823 people named Bīll in 2020, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Bīll compared with other names?
- In the United States, Bīll is the 232nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C4%ABllThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bīll” — the 232nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.