Girl · English pet form of a Germanic name
Tillie
Say it: TIL-ee
Meaning
A pet form of Matilda, from Germanic maht 'might' and hild 'battle'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Common in late-1800s America and back in use in Britain recently.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1890s
In the United States
- 14,932 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1891, about 1 in 896 girls
- 112 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Tilly
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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