Billie is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
Few children have been named Billie in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 children are currently called Billie. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Billie at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Billie is number *** on the list of most common first names.
#97 - this is the highest position Billie has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Billie reached this top position was in the last century, in 1930, when 4,715 newborn babies were named Billie. But as our statistics show, Billie has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1883, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Billie is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn child.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Billie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 290 newborns were given the name Billie, making them rank #1,737. Although the name Billie was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their baby. So the chances of an encounter with a young Billie are still there in our contemporary times.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With six letters, the name Billie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.7%, B as the first letter in given names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Billie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Billie, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Igloo
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Billie
Billie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
I
L
L
I
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
I
L
L
I
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Billie sounds like this:
