Tillie

Where Tillie comes from

From Matilda.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tillie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #156 among girls — 83 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #147
    145 babies named Tillie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1912
    Tillie Olsen born
    American writer
  4. 1941
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,020.
  5. 1942
    Tillie K. Fowler born
    American congresswoman
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Matilda.
Namesakes
  • Tillie Olsen · American writer, 1912–2007
  • Tillie K. Fowler · American congresswoman, 1942–2005
  • Tillie Walden · American cartoonist, born 1996
  • Tillie Anderson · cyclist, 1875–1965
  • Tillie Martinussen · Danish politician, born 1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.