Bills

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/bɪlz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bills is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): W Midlands: esp. Staffs;. variant of Bill , with genitival or postmedieval excrescent -s.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 33K(measured from records)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 34K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 39K

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)

10,051 people, 2010

Sources
362 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Ghana, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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): W Midlands: esp. Staffs;. variant of Bill , with genitival or postmedieval excrescent -s. Further information: The lengthened vowel in Biles and Byles may have arisen from the open syllable of the Middle English form Bile.

Sources 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)

Bills 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.

Where Bills is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—10,0511 in 33K10KBills362
GH Ghana#885≈2,000 est.≈1 in 15K—Bills15
GB United Kingdom—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 39K—Bills129
CA Canada—≈910 est.≈1 in 41K—Bills52
IT Italy—≈790 est.≈1 in 79K—Bills9
AU Australia—≈760 est.≈1 in 34K—Bills90
IE Ireland—≈250 est.≈1 in 21K—Bills6
SG Singapore—≈230 est.≈1 in 27K—Bills10

10,051 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Colombia, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Bill'S

  • Vietnamese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Vietnam, United Kingdom

    Also written Bill'S

  • Ukrainian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Bill'S

44 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(measured from records)

Bills is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In jam, A J$100 banknote.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

175018001850190019502000Sarah D. Fish, b. 1798Gerald F. Bills, b. 1955Michael A. Bills, b. 1958Randall N. Bills, b. 1971Taylor Bills, b. 1985Nicholas Bills, b. 1992

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)

FormalDear Bills,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Bills
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201010K#3,552
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020009.7K#3,363
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020209.5K#3,629
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Bills mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): W Midlands: esp. Staffs;. variant of Bill , with genitival or postmedieval excrescent -s. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Bills?
A machine transcription gives /bɪlz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bills have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Bills, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bills.
How common is the name Bills?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,051 people named Bills in 2010, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
How common is Bills compared with other names?
In Ghana, Bills is the 885th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bills” — the 885th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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