Meaning not yet researched.
Bill: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #57 in 1931.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #57 in 1931; #5,235 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bill in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,235 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1931, at #57.
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Bill: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #57 in 1931 · most boys in one year: 4,681 (1947).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Bill, making it the 5,235th most common boys’ name of the year, down 650 places from #4,585 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 22 boys named Bill in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #57, reached in 1931. The most boys given the name in a single year was 4,681, in 1947. For comparison, it was #3,377 in 2015 and #131 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bill in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 53 babies with the name. In all, 161,190 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 37,848 babies named Bill.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 297 US boys were named Bill; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include William (4,215,725 babies since 1880), Will (46,610 babies since 1880), Guillermo (32,148 babies since 1880) and Willem (2,840 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bille and Beal are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Billy, Fred, Robert, William and Willie.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bille (51), Beal (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 18 | #5,235 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,585 |
| 2023 | — | — | 22 | #4,621 |
| 2022 | — | — | 26 | #4,104 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,382 |
| 2020 | — | — | 29 | #3,660 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,805 |
| 2018 | — | — | 48 | #2,619 |
| 2017 | — | — | 42 | #2,844 |
| 2016 | — | — | 39 | #3,000 |
| 2015 | — | — | 33 | #3,377 |
| 2014 | — | — | 47 | #2,584 |
| 2013 | — | — | 50 | #2,464 |
| 2012 | — | — | 41 | #2,874 |
| 2011 | — | — | 42 | #2,803 |
| 2010 | — | — | 53 | #2,377 |
| 2009 | — | — | 58 | #2,254 |
| 2008 | — | — | 73 | #1,951 |
| 2007 | — | — | 85 | #1,743 |
| 2006 | — | — | 85 | #1,670 |
| 2005 | — | — | 86 | #1,596 |
| 2004 | — | — | 89 | #1,503 |
| 2003 | — | — | 81 | #1,564 |
| 2002 | — | — | 74 | #1,621 |
| 2001 | — | — | 100 | #1,307 |
| 2000 | — | — | 114 | #1,189 |
| 1999 | — | — | 100 | #1,242 |
| 1998 | — | — | 100 | #1,224 |
| 1997 | — | — | 103 | #1,169 |
| 1996 | — | — | 116 | #1,049 |
| 1995 | — | — | 101 | #1,137 |
| 1994 | — | — | 110 | #1,065 |
| 1993 | — | — | 145 | #886 |
| 1992 | — | — | 138 | #900 |
| 1991 | — | — | 128 | #937 |
| 1990 | — | — | 112 | #995 |
| 1989 | — | — | 129 | #886 |
| 1988 | — | — | 145 | #785 |
| 1987 | — | — | 137 | #787 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,088 | 131 | #792 |
| 1985 | — | — | 176 | #665 |
| 1984 | — | — | 166 | #674 |
| 1983 | — | — | 205 | #599 |
| 1982 | — | — | 244 | #554 |
| 1981 | — | — | 231 | #562 |
| 1980 | — | — | 251 | #540 |
| 1979 | — | — | 273 | #505 |
| 1978 | — | — | 267 | #496 |
| 1977 | — | — | 324 | #441 |
| 1976 | — | — | 364 | #406 |
| 1975 | — | — | 409 | #385 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,788 | 466 | #356 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,518 | 519 | #330 |
| 1972 | — | — | 686 | #279 |
| 1971 | — | — | 878 | #253 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,428 | 1,020 | #233 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,697 | 1,075 | #219 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,319 | 1,161 | #201 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,504 | 1,275 | #190 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,904 | 1,556 | #173 |
| 1965 | — | — | 2,060 | #151 |
| 1964 | — | — | 2,737 | #126 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,572 | 3,193 | #113 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,917 | 3,574 | #108 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,273 | 4,000 | #104 |
| 1960 | — | — | 4,501 | #95 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,618 | 4,596 | #93 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,953 | 4,221 | #99 |
| 1957 | — | — | 3,118 | #123 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,033 | 1,957 | #159 |
| 1955 | — | — | 1,656 | #171 |
| 1954 | — | — | 1,526 | #176 |
| 1953 | — | — | 1,522 | #176 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,625 | 1,588 | #168 |
| 1951 | — | — | 1,653 | #157 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,784 | 2,040 | #131 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,645 | 2,765 | #106 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,918 | 3,926 | #84 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,389 | 4,681 | #76 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,245 | 4,354 | #72 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,417 | 3,711 | #66 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,784 | 3,815 | #66 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,842 | 3,990 | #65 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,212 | 3,794 | #65 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,549 | 3,453 | #68 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,584 | 3,267 | #67 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,945 | 3,161 | #67 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,482 | 3,113 | #67 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,173 | 3,119 | #64 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,809 | 3,166 | #61 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,450 | 3,282 | #60 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,444 | 3,534 | #59 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,558 | 3,223 | #59 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,241 | 3,362 | #58 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,512 | 3,218 | #57 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,577 | 3,160 | #59 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,494 | 2,947 | #63 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,551 | 2,976 | #64 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,562 | 2,863 | #69 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,081 | 2,643 | #74 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,034 | 2,381 | #84 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,146 | 2,067 | #92 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,095 | 1,833 | #98 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,500 | 1,675 | #104 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,993 | 1,482 | #121 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,081 | 1,421 | #121 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,835 | 1,196 | #130 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,541 | 1,038 | #143 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,111 | 891 | #147 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,685 | 854 | #147 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,058 | 746 | #157 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,549 | 559 | #159 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,902 | 466 | #156 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,401 | 347 | #168 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,512 | 243 | #135 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,452 | 259 | #124 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,245 | 205 | #132 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,149 | 164 | #144 |
| 1907 | — | — | 174 | #138 |
| 1906 | — | — | 128 | #154 |
| 1905 | — | — | 147 | #144 |
| 1904 | — | — | 128 | #149 |
| 1903 | — | — | 129 | #144 |
| 1902 | — | — | 138 | #137 |
| 1901 | — | — | 104 | #152 |
| 1900 | — | — | 196 | #117 |
| 1899 | — | — | 83 | #174 |
| 1898 | — | — | 90 | #175 |
| 1897 | — | — | 84 | #182 |
| 1896 | — | — | 86 | #190 |
| 1895 | — | — | 90 | #175 |
| 1894 | — | — | 73 | #200 |
| 1893 | — | — | 71 | #202 |
| 1892 | — | — | 75 | #201 |
| 1891 | — | — | 65 | #192 |
| 1890 | — | — | 72 | #186 |
| 1889 | — | — | 61 | #208 |
| 1888 | — | — | 58 | #231 |
| 1887 | — | — | 63 | #193 |
| 1886 | — | — | 64 | #208 |
| 1885 | — | — | 66 | #195 |
| 1884 | — | — | 82 | #171 |
| 1883 | — | — | 50 | #215 |
| 1882 | — | — | 61 | #207 |
| 1881 | — | — | 42 | #237 |
| 1880 | — | — | 53 | #221 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).