This page shows the Billy (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Billy was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Billy's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Billy for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Billy appears in 52 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 1,097 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2006, when the table records 48 babies given the name, at rank 117 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Billy for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
202520208
202417234
202318231
202217236
202119233
202026176
201919233
201816253
201725204
201614290
201521224
201415276
201323207
201228198
201131175
201028185
200916253
200820214
200737152
200648117
200537141
200435139
200327154
200219176
200125152
200024150
199930138
199821171
199736134
199620170
199526148
199418176
199326152
199223155
199119161
199031121
198923131
198820138
198716149
198618136
198521127
198410174
198314147
198211168
198116139
198018133
197912159
19788192
19779181
19766227
197511172
19749197

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