Billie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: feminine form of Bill/Billy/William; also diminutive of Wilhelmina
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bʲɪʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Billie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 3.1K
- IEIreland≈1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Billie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 462 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈460,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
feminine form of Bill/Billy/William; also diminutive of Wilhelmina
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Billie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Billie | 14 |
| US United States | #539 | 173,433as Billy | 1 in 1.9K | 171K | Billie | 462 |
| GB United Kingdom | #602 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 34 | Billie | 203 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Billie | 68 |
| IT Italy | #930 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | listed | Billie | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,434as Billy | 1 in 3K | 3.4K | Billie | 26 |
| SG Singapore | #324 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Billie | 20 |
| NZ New Zealand | #370 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 82 | Billie | 79 |
| IE Ireland | #302 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 87 | Billie | 29 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 329 | 1 in 53K | 383 | Billie | 29 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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 nameA 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 wordkaikki.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 nameFörnamn 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 30 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- 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 are other forms of the name Billie?
- In the etymology graph, William, Guillermo and Billy are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Willie and Bill.
- In which country does Billie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 458 thousand people named Billie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled billie.
- What does the name Billie mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine form of Bill/Billy/William; also diminutive of Wilhelmina Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How common is the name Billie?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 329 people named Billie, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Billie compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Billie is the 302nd most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Billie?
- A machine transcription gives /bʲɪʎi/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Billie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/billieThe 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, “Billie” — the 302nd most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.