Billy
434
Babies in 2024
-16%
10-year change
2005
Peak · 955
-10%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Billy
Billy peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (955 babies in 2005) and has remained in active use — 434 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Billy reached its peak in 2005, when 955 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #71 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 434 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 18,608 boys have been officially registered with the name Billy in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 5,109 boys were registered with the name, starting from 516 in 2014 and ending at 434 in 2024.