Tillie Girl
How popular is Tillie?
#1,261 girl name in 2025
177 baby girls were named Tillie in the US in 2025, making it the 1261st most popular girl name.
Tillie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,261 for girls (▼ 30 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 177 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+153% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,555 in 2015, #1,769 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1915 (499 girls) |
| Highest rank | #147 in 1884 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Tillie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Tilly family of names ranked #485 for girls in 2025 (#493 the year before), with 590 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tilly | 302 | 51% |
| Tillie | 177 | 30% |
| Tylee | 42 | 7% |
| Tyleigh | 22 | 4% |
| Tilley | 32 | 5% |
| Tylie | 15 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Tillie is most popular
Babies named Tillie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Iowa: 0.3 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.3 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.3 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Alabama: 0.2 per 1,000 (23 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.2 per 1,000 (41 girls)
Tillie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,254 | #147 |
| 1890s | 2,009 | #160 |
| 1900s | 1,842 | #221 |
| 1910s | 3,655 | #256 |
| 1920s | 2,696 | #343 |
| 1930s | 1,136 | #552 |
| 1940s | 559 | #786 |
| 1950s | 315 | #1,438 |
| 1960s | 187 | #2,060 |
| 1970s | 142 | #3,155 |
| 1980s | 116 | #4,147 |
| 1990s | 89 | #6,861 |
| 2000s | 205 | #3,869 |
| 2010s | 589 | #1,773 |
| 2020s | 944 | #1,231 |
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Questions
- Is Tillie a boy or girl name?
- Tillie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Tillie were girls.
- How popular is the name Tillie?
- 177 baby girls were named Tillie in the US in 2025, making it the 1261st most popular girl name.
- When was Tillie most popular?
- Tillie peaked in 1915, when 499 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #147 in 1884.
- How many people are named Tillie?
- 15,765 babies have been named Tillie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 3,251 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 20.
- Where is Tillie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Tillie was most common in Iowa, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.