Tillie
2025 SSA
About Tillie
A surprise recent hit revival with cutting-edge British, Tribeca and Malibu parents; Tillie, also spelled Tilly, is cute, frilly, and sassy all at once. Tilly features in the England and Wales Top 200, joining other nickname names like Milly, Maisie, Kitty and Lottie, while Tillie appears further down the charts in the Top 600.
Typically used as a nickname for Matilda, this spelling in particular may well appeal to parents of Ottilies.
Writer Tillie Olsen is a feminist favorite. Tillie's Punctured Romance is a classic Mack Sennett silent film, starring Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand and Marie Dressler; Tillie the Toiler was an iconic flapper comic strip.
Pronounced TIL-ee.
As of October 2026, Tillie ranked #1269 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #148 in 1884.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,183 | 52 | 29.1 |
| 2015 | #2,583 | 70 | 39.2 |
| 2016 | #2,535 | 71 | 40.1 |
| 2017 | #3,047 | 54 | 31.3 |
| 2018 | #2,216 | 84 | 49.4 |
| 2019 | #1,786 | 115 | 68.5 |
| 2020 | #1,780 | 112 | 69.3 |
| 2021 | #1,608 | 131 | 79.8 |
| 2022 | #1,440 | 156 | 95.1 |
| 2023 | #1,300 | 176 | 109.7 |
| 2024 | #1,236 | 189 | 116.7 |
| 2025 | #1,269 | 177 | 110.1 |
World rankings
Similar names
These 20 names were selected by our users looking for other names like Tillie.
- Lou
- Tilly
- Georgie
- Marnie
- Nellie
- Lettie
- Kit
- Della
- Bea
- Junie
- Dottie
- Margo
- Teddy
- Ruthie
- Billie
- Frankie
- Murphy
- Darby
- Essie
- Lottie
Tillie on lists
Famous Tillies
- Tillie Lerner Olsen
American novelist
- Tillie Kidd Fowler
U.S. Congresswoman from Florida
- Tillie Schloss Pine
American children's author
- Tillie Moreno
Filipina singer
- Tillie Baldwin (born Anna Mathilda Winger)
American rodeo pioneer
- Tillie Anderson
Swedish,American cyclist
Tillie in pop culture
- Matilda "Tillie" Hunsdorfer
character in Paul Zindel's play "The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man,in,the,Moon Marigolds"
- Tillie Banks
main character in play "Tillie's Nightmare" and 1914 silent film "Tillie's Punctured Romance"
- Tillie Hansen
character in 1985 movie "The Aviator"
- Tillie Kupermann
character in "Blythewood" by Carol Goodman
- Māreikura "Tillie" Potts
character on New Zealand soap "Shortland Street"
- "Tillie the Toiler
" comic strip by Russ Westover
- "Tillie and the Wall
" short story by Leo Lionni