Billy

Billy is the 9,730th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,183 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 93,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,183
Rank: 9,730th
How common: 1 in 93,900
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Billy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 41.3%
White, not Hispanic 28.7%
Black, not Hispanic 16.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%

Notable people called Billy

Chuck Billy (born 1962)American vocalist
Jacques de Billy (1602–1679)French mathematician
André Billy (1882–1971)French writer

People named Billy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Billy

Also a first name

Billy has been given to 389,665 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1934. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.