Tilly
#884 for girls in 2025, 302 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 302 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,699since 1912
Tilly over time
Rank among girls' names. Tilly has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #884 | 302 |
| 2024 | #952 | 274 |
| 2023 | #1,043 | 242 |
| 2022 | #1,026 | 250 |
| 2021 | #1,129 | 218 |
| 2020 | #1,327 | 166 |
| 2019 | #1,340 | 170 |
| 2018 | #1,640 | 129 |
| 2017 | #1,854 | 110 |
| 2016 | #2,287 | 83 |
| 2015 | #2,236 | 84 |
| 2014 | #2,560 | 69 |
| 2013 | #2,706 | 64 |
| 2012 | #2,632 | 68 |
| 2011 | #3,222 | 51 |
| 2010 | #3,572 | 44 |
| 2009 | #3,800 | 41 |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | |
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| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | — | |
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| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | — | |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | — | |
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| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
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| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 |
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| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
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| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 |
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| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 |
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| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
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| 1916 | #3,031 | 9 |
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| 1914 | #1,896 | 13 |
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| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tilly! It came in at #2,979, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1913, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Tilly is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#461 · 1 in 1,881
- Oklahoma#483 · 1 in 1,859
- Washington#521 · 1 in 2,271
- Kentucky#564 · 1 in 2,431
- Oregon#568 · 1 in 2,290
Best ever in a state: #162 in North Dakota, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #461 | 9 | 1 in 1,881 |
| Oklahoma | #483 | 8 | 1 in 1,859 |
| Washington | #521 | 13 | 1 in 2,271 |
| Kentucky | #564 | 7 | 1 in 2,431 |
| Oregon | #568 | 6 | 1 in 2,290 |
| Missouri | #571 | 10 | 1 in 2,473 |
| Arkansas | #577 | 5 | 1 in 2,176 |
| Colorado | #689 | 7 | 1 in 3,162 |
| Michigan | #748 | 10 | 1 in 3,833 |
| South Carolina | #786 | 5 | 1 in 3,544 |
| North Carolina | #874 | 10 | 1 in 4,508 |
| Tennessee | #891 | 7 | 1 in 4,460 |
| Ohio | #900 | 10 | 1 in 4,861 |
| Indiana | #1,054 | 5 | 1 in 5,677 |
| Arizona | #1,063 | 5 | 1 in 5,547 |
| Florida | #1,133 | 12 | 1 in 6,967 |
| Virginia | #1,176 | 5 | 1 in 6,916 |
| Illinois | #1,309 | 6 | 1 in 8,067 |
| Texas | #1,337 | 18 | 1 in 8,638 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,413 | 5 | 1 in 9,757 |
| New York | #1,425 | 9 | 1 in 9,028 |
| Georgia | #1,484 | 5 | 1 in 9,057 |
| California | #2,193 | 9 | 1 in 19,392 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tilly
- 68 spots since 2024 (#952 → #884)
- 443 spots since 2020 (#1,327 → #884)
- 1,352 spots since 2015 (#2,236 → #884)
- Biggest jump: 91 spots in 2024 (#1,043 → #952)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2025 at #884 (302 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2024–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,322 girls born in 2025 were named Tilly (0.02%)
- 53.8% of all girls named Tilly (1,452) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 27 | #1,896 (1914) | #2,635 |
| 1920s | 20 | #4,725 (1928) | #4,870 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,753 (1933) | #4,082 |
| 1940s | 6 | #3,863 (1940) | #3,863 |
| 1950s | 5 | #6,245 (1959) | #6,245 |
| 1960s | 18 | #5,293 (1962) | #6,067 |
| 1970s | 28 | #7,292 (1972) | #8,275 |
| 1980s | 5 | #11,325 (1987) | #11,325 |
| 1990s | 71 | #6,836 (1999) | #10,311 |
| 2000s | 184 | #3,800 (2009) | #7,796 |
| 2010s | 872 | #1,340 (2019) | #2,405 |
| 2020s | 1,452 | #884 (2025) | #1,060 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tilly in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 7,527 of them was named Tilly, which outranked 93.6% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,122Zaira220
- #1,127Darcy219
- #1,127Harleigh219
- #1,129Tilly218
- #1,129Carolyn218
- #1,129Elouise218
- #1,129Memphis218
- #1,135Leena217
- #1,135Lizbeth217
- #1,135Queen217
Tied with 5 names at #1,129; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.