Billi

Where Billi comes from

The dictionaries list Billi as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, derived from Williamina or Wilhelmina, or directly from the masculine Billy — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #4,274 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Peak, #1,297
    84 babies named Billi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,327.
  4. 2007
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, derived from Williamina or Wilhelmina, or directly from the masculine Billy.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Billi hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.