girls:
15.4k births since 1880
#1229 (79th percentile)
boys:
27 births since 1909
#4559 (1st percentile)
overall:
15.4k births since 1880
#2106 (73rd percentile)
The name Tillie is the #2,106 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,395 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 72.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,229 (78.5% percentile) for all time with 15,368 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1909.
Tillie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1909 for boys). Birth data for Tillie is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tillie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tillie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 54.5% percentile (ranked #255) with 487 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 1,054 births per million (ranked 45.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Tillie ranks #776 for girls (18.1% percentile) with 101 births per million, which is 9.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tillie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #502) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 28 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1923.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tillie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Tillie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Tillie is pronounced as TIH-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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