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How popular is the name Tillie?
Births per year, rank history and how many Tillies are alive today.
Tillie (female) is an uncommon spelling of the girls' name Tilly in England and Wales, ranked 561st in 2025 with 71 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2012, when 122 babies were given the name, the 386th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 637 in 2017 before climbing back to the 561st place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
Across all spellings of the name, the Tilly you are most likely to meet is around 17 years old. Half of all Tillies born in England and Wales are between 10 and 21, and there are at least 14,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 4.3% chance that at least one of them will be called Tilly.
How many babies are named Tillie each year?
Includes all spellings: Tillie, Tilly. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Tillie spelling rank?
Where does the Tilly spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Tillie most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Tilly, peaked in 2009, when 781 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Tillie spelling itself peaked in 2012, with 122 babies.
How many people are called Tillie?
At least 14,000 people named Tillie in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Tillie?
Most living Tillies are between 10 and 21; the most common age is about 17.
Is Tillie becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.