Billes
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bij/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Billes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Surrey. see Bills .
- FRFrance≈1 in 186K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- USUnited States≈1 in 4.3M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
≈370 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Main GB Location (1881): Surrey. see Bills .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Billes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 186K | 38 | Billes | 119 |
| US United States | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | listed | Billes | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- J. William Billesb. 1897CACanadian businessman
- Stefan Billesb. 1909ATAustrian politician (1909–2002)
- Lucien Billesb. 1911FRFrench Righteous Among the Nations
- Marguerite Billesb. 1911FRFrench Righteous Among the Nations
- Dave Billesb. 1938Canadian racing driver
- Julie Billesb. 1992FRFrench rugby union player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 36 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Billes mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Surrey. see Bills . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Billes?
- A machine transcription gives /bij/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Billes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 365 people named Billes in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled billes.
- How common is the name Billes?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Billes in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/billesThe 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, “Billes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.