Tillie vs Tillman

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Tillie Tillman

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Tillie for 104 years and Tillman for 42 years. The lead changed hands 30 times.

• 1880–1946 Tillie ahead
• 1950–1952 Tillman ahead
• 1953–1955 Tillie ahead
• 1966–1973 Tillman ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1974–1976 Tillie ahead
• 1977–2007 Tillman ahead, apart from 3 short spells
• 2011–2025 Tillie ahead

20 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tillmans alive today are over 37; half the Tillies are over 16. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Tillie North Dakota (10.6×), New Mexico (10.3×), South Dakota (2.7×)
• Tillman South Carolina (21.6×), Georgia (8.3×), Arkansas (6.4×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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