# Billy-Joe (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/billy-joe/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 398 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 398 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 365, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 14 | 3,282 |
| 1987 | 17 | 2,958 |
| 1988 | 17 | 3,088 |
| 1989 | 6 | 7,043 |
| 1990 | 12 | 4,439 |
| 1991 | 14 | 4,029 |
| 1992 | 11 | 4,904 |
| 1993 | 8 | 6,285 |
| 1994 | 5 | 8,932 |
| 2000 | 5 | 10,545 |
| 2002 | 7 | 8,558 |
| 2005 | 6 | 10,269 |
| 2007 | 6 | 11,083 |
| 2010 | 6 | 10,927 |
| 2014 | 5 | 12,323 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,589 |
| 2013 | 12 | 1,796 |
| 2014 | 11 | 1,935 |
| 2015 | 19 | 1,327 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 17 | 1,470 |
| 2018 | 15 | 1,610 |
| 2019 | 17 | 1,439 |
| 2020 | 18 | 1,379 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 18 | 1,420 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 12 | 1,951 |
| 2025 | 13 | 1,897 |

## People named Billy-Joe

- Billy Joe Shaver, American country singer (1939–2020)
- Billy Joe Saunders, British boxer
- Billy Joe Royal, American singer (1942-2015)
- B. J. Thomas, American singer (1942-2021)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.