Tillie
Tillie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 189 births. Its best rank was 148th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1890.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1915499 births
- Best rank
- #148in 1884
- Since 1880
- 15,558people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,558 girls have been named Tillie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 499 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 23%. It has spent 62 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tillie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,254 | |
| 1890s | 2,009 | |
| 1900s | 1,842 | |
| 1910s | 3,655 | |
| 1920s | 2,696 | |
| 1930s | 1,136 | |
| 1940s | 559 | |
| 1950s | 315 | |
| 1960s | 187 | |
| 1970s | 142 | |
| 1980s | 116 | |
| 1990s | 89 | |
| 2000s | 205 | |
| 2010s | 589 | |
| 2020s | 764 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Tillie was the 263rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Tillie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lottiepeak 1916
- Hilmapeak 1915
- Lenapeak 1917
- Mabelpeak 1915
- Blanchepeak 1917
- Liddiepeak 1916
- Sulapeak 1921
- Izorapeak 1915
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.