Is Scottie the new Billie?

📛Nameberry🍒 believes the name 📛Billie was "destined for stardom."⭐ That certainly seems to be the case. Billie was the original 💙masculine name turned 💗feminine as a growing girl's name choice starting in the 60s & 70s with 🎾tennis' Billie (Jean) King reigning in the sports world — followed right into the 80s with the 🎼fictional Billie (Jean) in Michael Jackson's popular song of the same name. Then ⏩fast forward to 2019 with the rise of budding, but immensely talented 🎤singer Billie Eilish. 

The name 📛Billie (meaning: resolute protection, a diminutive of 📛Wilhelmina which comes from 📛Wilhelm which is the German form of 📛William. 📛Bill is a short form of the English William, Billie being the female version of it.) is currently #694 on US Top 1000. But "to track its path from blue to pink, Billie was 100% male in 1880, was 55% female just a decade later, in the girls' Top 100 by 1928, and is now overwhelmingly female," 📛Nameberry🍒 breaks down.  

But Billie may have some stiff competition with 📛Scottie — the 💙boy-turned-girl💗 name that's 📈rising ⏫fast. At least in the realm of ⭐celebrity babies being born. Just recently, 🎙rapper Eminem's daughter Alaina (whose last name is Scott) named her daughter: 📛Scottie Marie Moeller. And last year 2025, 😅comedian Pete Davidson welcomed a daughter named: 📛Scottie 🌹Rose. 📛Nameberry🍒 quickly points out, they weren't the only parents to choose 📛Scottie 🌹Rose: "Youtubers Alyssa Hyde and Charles Davis chose it for their daughter earlier in the same year, while influencer Presley Gaspard selected it in 2024." And way ⏪before Scottie's take off 🚀 on 📛name charts📊 in the 2020s, in 1921 was the birth of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's daughter: Frances Scott Fitzgerald but often called Scottie. "Scottie" is also another name for the Scottish Terrier 🐶dog breed. 

📛Scottie is a nickname of 📛Scot (a variation of: the surname📛Scott): a masculine name (a la Scottie Pippen the 🏀basketball player) with: "clear geographic origins, directly referring to a person from Scotland. Derived from the Latin 'Scotus,' meaning 'Scottish,' this concise name carries strong cultural associations with Scottish heritage and identity. As a given name, Scot gained modest popularity in the mid-20th century, particularly in America, often chosen by families with Scottish ancestry. The single-t spelling distinguishes it slightly from the more common 'Scott,' (a cool, windswept, surfer babe-magnet in 1965, a nice dad -- or even granddad -- today) giving it a more direct connection to its ethnic origins," says 📛Nameberry🍒.

📛Nameberry🍒 describes 📛Scottie as: "sassy, old school vibes, its cheerful, snappy sounds, and its fresh, unisex image — managing to feel stylish, preppy, playful, and tough all at once." 📛NB🍒 crowns 👑Scottie: "one of the fastest rising names for girls in the US in 2023, and then again in 2024," although, "Scottie only entered the US Top 1000 in 2022, but rose 300 places in 2023, then another 400 in 2024." Scottie is high at #202 on US Top 1000 currently. Scottie surprising is given to 💗girls "90% of the time, with 1517 receiving the name in a recent year." 📛Nameberry🍒 believes Scottie's new popularity, "reflects America's current love for grandpa names for girls, like Frankie, Ozzie, and Lenny." 📛NB🍒 points out that Scottie, "on the rise in The Netherlands too, has replaced 📛Scotlyn [📛Scotlynd is a variation, belonging to "Scotty" (cute but slight masculine nickname) of 😈Baddies📺] which seemed to be making moves in the 2010s." 

📍North Carolina is the state where the most Scotties (Scotty of reality show 😈Baddies📺 was born in 🗺Raleigh) seem to live.

I love 😍 the name 📛Scottie, it's one of my favorite names — it's cute, cool and carefree — but only for a 💙boy! I don't understand 😖 how it came to be a feminine name 🤔 and I don't like it used for a girl. 🙅🏾‍♀️ The first time I did hear it used for a girl's name is with Scotty of 😈Baddies 📺. I was perplexed ❓ at first but it all made sense when I found her her first name is the lovely Scotlynd. 😮 Scottie as a nickname isn't so bad using it... but a full name? 🤨 I see only a boy being able to rock Scottie successfully. 👌🏾 On the other hand, I 🙋🏾‍♀️ love the name 📛Scotland and all its variations: ✔📛Scotlyn and ✔📛Scotlynd for a 💗girl. 

Out of the two sought-after boy-turned-girl names to have: 📛Billie and 📛Scottie, I prefer 📛Billie. 🤷🏾‍♀️ Maybe it's because I grew up knowing Billie to be used as a girl's name too. I always knew Scottie as a boy's name until recently so it will take time for it to stick as a unisex name. Although 📛Scottie is ahead at #202 and 📛Billie is behind at #694 — I still think I'm more likely to meet a Billie over a Scottie (I have yet to meet either 😑). I 🔮foresee 📛Scottie eventually 📉dropping on the name charts — it seems to be more of a fad name (especially 📛Scottie 🌹Rose. Is she trying to be the new 📛Billie Jean?! 🤦🏾‍♀️) at the moment. I'm skeptical 📛Scottie will stand the test of time being chosen 🥇 decades from now — the premier 🍼baby girl's💗 name with a boyish edge — over beguiling, beloved 📛Billie. 🥰

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛SCOTTIES:

📛Scottie Nell Hughes 📰 🎙 (journalist & political commentator)

📛"Scottie" Thompson [born Susan Scott Thompson] 🎥 (actress) 

📛"Scottie Beam" [born Deanii Andrea Scott] 📻 (media personality and 💗daughter of 📻radio 🎧DJ Shaila Scott of WBLS) 

📛Scottie King 🎥 (character in film The Descendants) 

📛Scottie 📺 (character on t.v. show Last Call)

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Scottie:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/S/SC/SCOTTIE/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Scottie: 👎 OR 💗💗/10 

Billie Jean, Diana, Annie & Susie: Michael Jackson Songs Featuring Female Names

💐Legendary 🎤🕺🏽 entertainer extraordinaire 👑Michael Jackson sang a multitude of hit 🎼songs — four of which I will be discussing — as they feature the first names: 📛Billie Jean, 📛Diana, 📛Annie and 📛Susie. 

"She told me her name was Billie Jean," Jackson sings of a beautiful woman with movie star looks. However, Billie Jean is not only a looker but a liar allegedly, accusing a man of being the father of her son.

The name 📛Billie Jean (excluding 🎾tennis' Billie Jean King) is forever associated with a woman being the ultimate homewrecker. But Billie Jean is a badass 😎 name nevertheless. 📛Billie Jean is obviously the names 📛Billie (meaning: resolute protection, English, diminutive of 📛Wilhelmina) + 📛Jean (meaning: God is gracious, French, variation of 📛Johanna) = the perfect name combination. 📛Nameberry🍒 says Billie Jean peaked for girls in 1984 (Billie Jean the song was released in 1983) at #4498. Boyish Billie alone has become a popular name (#694 ranking in US Top 1000) while old fashioned Jean (on name charts since 1880) is "extremely well-used as a middle name," points out 📛NB🍒. 

I love 😍 the name 📛Billie Jean and personally would not mind if I had been named it 🤷🏾‍♀️ (quite possible too because my late father was a huge Michael Jackson fan, the song came out days before I was born and my late mother said the song was played for me when I was a 👶🏾baby 🥰). But with how shocking the story of the fictional Billie Jean is, perhaps having it as a first name would be too scandalous 😬 (at least during the 80s if a girl grew up named such). Billie Jean the song would not be the same if it were entitled only: Billie or just: Jean. Separately the names are fine but together they are a perfect powerhouse. 💥

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Billie Jean: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10 

"Dirty Diana," Jackson bluntly sings of Diana the fan of every musician, who likes boys in bands, knows when they're in town  — and waits backstage for them after shows hoping she gains stardom.⭐

Say the name 📛Diana and most often think 👑Princess right before. So for Jackson to have a racy song with the first name of a prestigous royal family member within is jaw-dropping. 😮 But no the song was not about the Princess of Wales! In an interview with Barbara Walters, Jackson shared the memory of a London concert with Princess Diana present: "I took it out of the show in honor of her royal highness. She took me away and she said, Are you going to do 'Dirty Diana'? So, I said, 'No I took it out of the show because of you.' She said, 'No! I want you to do it. Do the song.'"

In the US the name Diana is #243 in the Top 1000, making it a pretty popular name. 📛Diana is of Latin origin and means: divine, originating from the Roman goddess Diana 'of the hunt.' 📛Nameberry🍒 thinks "Diana is a gorgeous and still underused choice." Yet it is still more used than smiliar 📛Diane, which 📛NB🍒 jokes, "middle-aged Diane has been overshadowed by the a-ending version of her name." 

I really like the name 📛Diana, it's a beautiful and timeless name. It definitely has a bit more oomph! than slightly boring sister 📛Diane. If Jackson's Dirty Diana were instead: Dirty Diane it would not be the same song. 📛Diana was definitely the ✔right name choice to use. 💯

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Diana: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10 

"Annie are you okay?" Jackson asks of distressed victim named Annie in his smooth song Smooth Criminal. That question sung by Jackson was, "inspired by Resusci Anne, the name of the model of doll used to teach CPR. Jackson combined the question trainees learn to ask, “are you OK?” with the name of the doll to create the iconic line," according to American Songwriter.🖊

The name 📛Annie is often a winsome (think Little Orphan Annie) nickname for 📛Ann —  which means: grace (deriving from 📛Hannah in Hebrew). "Annie is one of the most open and optimistic, the-sun'll-come-out-tomorrow type of name. It strikes a nice old-fashioned-but-jaunty chord that still has appeal," swears 📛Nameberry🍒. It ranks at #191 in US Top 1000 and has been a Top 20 name from the 1880s to 1907. 

📛Annie is an adorable name but maybe too... childish? 🤔 At least to use as a first name. I like it mainly as a nickname to the more serious: 📛Ann, 📛Anne or girly 📛Anna. Jackson again, made the correct name choice in choosing 📛Annie: "Anna are you okay?" or "Ann/e are you okay?" No, both sound off. 🙅🏾‍♀️

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Annie: 👍 / 👎 OR 💗💗💗💗💗/10 

"Susie got your number and Susie ain't your friend," Jackson warns of seductive woman who is out to kill, and ends up stabbing 🔪 someone, in: 🩸Blood On The Dance Floor. 💃 

The name 📛Susie (meaning: lily, of Hebrew origin) is usually short for 📛Susan (or 📛Susannah). 📛Nameberry🍒 claims, "In the 1950s and 60s, Susie was the name every little girl wanted for her very own," — and it might be — "off its fashion peak but it's still cute and perky." Susie ranks #970 in the US Top 1000.

📛Susie is simple yet cutesy when used as a real life name and I like it just okay 👌🏾 — but it doesn't seem like it would be the name of a femme fatale 👄 —  yet it somehow it works well (over 📛Susan, too dull 🥱 and 📛Susannah, too peppy 😃) in Jackson's dark 😈 song. 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Susie: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗/10 

In 🎉celebration of the Michael 🎶biopic 🎥movie 👀check out related ☔IRN📛 posts below⬇:

📌📖READ ALL ABOUT THE NAME: 📛Jaafar:

https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2025/11/name-of-day-jaafar.html

📌📖READ ALL ABOUT THE NAME: 📛Jackson:

https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2025/06/name-of-day-jackson.html

CELEBRITY BABY NAME REVEAL: Ozzy

Jack Osbourne, son of the late heavy metal legendary 🤘rocker Ozzy Osbourne (born John Michael Osbourne) aka the "Prince of Darkness" — has just had his own "Princess of Darkness"  — with the birth of daughter named after her grandfather: 📛Ozzy 💗  

Her full name is 📛Ozzy Matilda Osbourne. 📛Nameberry🍒 says, "Ozzy is derived from the Old English element os meaning "God" or "divine", or from the Irish oss meaning "deer". This grandpa-esque nickname traditionally short for masculine names like Osmond, Oscar, or Oswald is starting to get traction on its' own, thanks to its cool, zippy sound." 

Behind the Name says Ozzy is a variant of 📛Ozzie (which is a diminutive of 📛Osborn). BTN points out, "a famous bearer was the British musician Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025), though in his case it was a nickname based on his surname." Biography.com writes, "he acquired the nickname Ozzy in elementary school, where he struggled with dyslexia."

I'm not an Ozzy Osbourne fan but I am a fan of his granddaughter being named 📛Ozzy after him 👍🏾👍🏾 — it's a very sweet tribute 🥰 plus a pretty cool 😎 name to carry as a girl. 

Some Ozzy the musician fan comments on 📛Ozzy the 👶baby girl💗:

 

 "The most perfect name she could have ever received!!"

 "I love her name I'm sure Ozzy is smiling."

"The sweetest name. Her Papa's gotta be so tickled watching over."

"Yay, we have another Ozzy Osbourne! The world is right again." 

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Ozzy: 👍 OR 💓💓💓💓💓💓/10 

NAME OF THE DAY: Daryl

With 80s 🧜🏼‍♀️Splash actress Daryl Hannah recent resurfacing in the news — I will be discussing her very out of the ordinary 🦄 name for a woman: 📛Daryl 

📛Nameberry🍒 bluntly gives credit, "actress Daryl Hannah made this a girls' name in theory." Adding, "though in the most recent year counted, about 75 baby boys in the US were named Daryl...and zero baby girls." Daryl as a girl's name ranks #959 in the US Top 1000 while Daryl as a boy's name ranks at #946.

📛NB🍒 says, Daryl is a variation of the French 📛Darrell and means, "dear one, beloved." Behind the Name details Darrell as, "from an English surname that was derived from Norman French d'Airelle, originally denoting one who came from Airelle in France."

In the U.S. Daryl is used as a girl's name 7% of the time — most Daryls live in 📍California and 📍South Dakota. 

I think 🤔 I like the name 📛Daryl for a 💗girl or 💙boy equally... although a girl named Daryl is definitely more different a little cooler. 😎 In the case of Daryl Hannah's name, it tickles me 😄 because her name should be the opposite (a la 📛Michael Michelle) — 📛Hannah Daryl (📛Daryl is also a surname). Her middle name is 📛Christine. But Christine Hannah does not make a splash💦 like Daryl Hannah does. 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛DARYLS:

📛Daryl Ann 👄🚓📺 (t.v. show character on Hill Street Blues) 

📛Daryl Van Horne 😈📕🎥 (movie character in The Witches of Eastwick - based on the book by John Updike — Daryl has an extra 'r' as: 📛Darryl Van Horne)

📛Daryl Dixon 📺 (t.v. show character on The Walking Dead)

📛Daryl Mitchell 📺 (actor)

📛Daryl Sabara 🎥 (actor)

📛Daryl McCormack 🎥 (actor)

📛Daryl Palumbo 🎤 (band frontman)

📛Daryl Hall 🎤 (singer)

📛Daryl Dragon 🎤 (singer)

📛Daryl Braithwaite 🎤 (singer)

📛Daryl Johnston 🏈 (former NFL football player)

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Daryl:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/D/DA/DARYL/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Daryl: 👍 OR 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓/10 

NAME OF THE DAY: Surya

Former figure ⛸ skater Surya Bonaly is back in the news again, being applauded as the first 🥇Olympic skater to land a backflip on one blade (aka the "Bonaly flip") in the 1998 Winter Olympics (whilst Ilia Malinin is being praised for performing the same backflips in the 2026 Winter Olympics) — so I will be discussing her first name: 📛Surya

Surya is surprisingly a masculine name, "occasionally used for boys in 2024" 📛Nameberry🍒 says, describing it as a "graceful Indian choice that may 🔊sound feminine to the Western ear but is in fact the name of a male god." Surya means "sun"  in Sanskrit and is the name of the Vedic Hindu god of the sun who rides a chariot across the sky.

Surya however, "peaked for girls at #4822" in 1994  — interestingly before Bonaly's rise in '98.

Bonaly was born in France, but in America, Surya is popular ("used as a boy's name 74% of the time" though) in 📍Delaware & 📍California.

I like the name 📛Surya — but when used for a 💗girl's name more because it does look and sound (I can't stop pronouncing it as: Su-rye-ah 🤷🏾‍♀️) fit for a female.

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Surya:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/S/SU/SURYA/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Surya: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10

Kylie Kelce On Why She Chose Boy Names for Her Girls

Kylie Kelce🎙podcaster and wife of 🏈NFL player Jason Kelce  — defended their daughter's traditionally boy names on a recent episode of her podcast Not Gonna Lie.

📛Wyatt 📛Elliotte 📛Bennett and 📛Finnley — are their daughter's very boyish names.  

Kelce was asked a question on how her daughter's names were chosen and she explodes, “This next question appears to be pure rage bait. ‘What’s with the boy names?’ I’ll tell you what’s with the boys' names. We — my husband and I — liked gender neutral names for our daughters. Elliotte’s nickname is Ellie so you can f--- off. The part that I take issue with on people having issue with our names is that I actually didn’t ask. I didn’t ask what you thought about my kids’ names. My husband and I agreed on the names. We like them. You, honestly, you should try naming a human being. It’s not easy. And so, yeah, I’m good.”  

😳

On daughter Wyatt's name Kelce says people ask: if Wyatt “is a family name” assuming, “they’re trying to find a saving grace in the fact that my husband and I picked Wyatt for a little girl.” She says she and her husband selected Wyatt, “before we knew the gender of the baby. We decided we liked it as a boy or as a girl.” 

Kelce previously shared the process behind naming her youngest daughter, Finn, on an earlier podcast episode of hers saying: “For the first 24 hours of her life, she did not have a name. We had discussed names with anyone we could trust to not share names. We didn’t go with a single option that we had been discussing, so there’s that." She admits that Finnley was actually a name considered for sister Elliotte. “Considering we had to name four children with the same gender, we had to run it back to the archives and borrow one from a different child, and that’s what we did."  

I'm not going to lie... I don't like any of these names 🙅🏾‍♀️ (sorry!😬)  — especially used as girl's names but even if they were for four sons Kelce had instead. I find the names bland. 🤷🏾‍♀️ I'm a name snob. 🙋🏾‍♀️ I have extremely specific 🧐 taste in 📛names and I will always like a 🦄unique name over an 🥱uninteresting name. Now I'm not against (so much) usually boy names used as a girl name or a feminine spin put on a boy's name (a la 📛Billie) but it's not my name preference. I like super girly / feminine 📛names for girls 💗 and very boyish / masculine 📛names for boys. 💙 

I do feel Kelce's rage 🤬 after the 'rage bait' caller called into her podcast to question her daughter's names. 🤨 Because if I had children and someone questioned their choice of names, I would definitely take it personally. 👌🏾 

What do I like about Kelce's daughter's names? Their 📛middle names!: 

Wyatt 📛Elizabeth Kelce, Elliotte 📛Ray Kelce, Bennett 📛Llewellyn Kelce and Finnley 📛Anne Kelce

📑Jason Kelce Still Spells One of His Daughters' Names Wrong, Wife Kylie Kelce Reveals:

📌https://people.com/jason-kelce-still-spells-one-of-his-daughters-names-wrong-11946373

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Wyatt: 👎 OR  💓 / 10  

📰📛Wyatt made it onto the ☔IRN📛 🏆 The Best & Worst 👎👎 📛Names of 2025 📃list!:

https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2025/12/its-raining-names-best-worst-names-of.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Elliotte: 👎 OR  💓💓 / 10  

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Bennett: 👎 OR  💓 / 10  

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Finnley: 👎 OR  💓 / 10  

NAME OF THE DAY: Billie

The surprisingly girlie name 📛Billie is originally a boy's name, the variant of 📛Billy which is a diminutive of 📛Bill that originates from the name 📛William - Behind the Name breaks down. "While more commonly recognized as a feminine name today, 📛Billie has historical precedence as a male name, particularly in the early to mid-20th century," Nameberry points out.

Nameberry says 📛Billie is of English origin meaning "resolute protection." Billie is a "tomboy nickname name, part of the growing trend for using boyish nicknames for girls. To track its path from blue to pink, Billie was 100% male in 1880, was 55% female just a decade later, in the girls' Top 100 by 1928, and is now overwhelmingly female," Nameberry explains. Billie is #694 on the Most Popular Baby Names of 2024 list. The most Billies reside in 📍Texas and 📍Oklahoma.

I like the name 📛Billie for a girl, it's cute enough but... I like it way more when it's combined with a second name a la: 📛Jean, 📛Ann/Anne etc. The second name gives it that oomph 👌🏾 and makes it just a bit more feminine. 💗 📛Billie for a boy 💙 I don't like 🙅🏾‍♀️ compared to 📛Billy spelled with a 'y'. Why? 🤷🏾‍♀️ Because I'm just so used to 📛Billie 'ie' ending being the 💗girl's version. 

📌📛Nameberry🍒 Forums on 📛Billie: ➡🤔WDYT: Billie & 📛Name Billie for a girl? 👶💗

📌👀Reddit 📛namenerds 👌 Community Thread: ➡"Thoughts on Billie as a girl's name?" 👶💗📛

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛BILLIES:

📛Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan) 🎤 (jazz singer)

📛Billie Jean 🎼 (woman sung about in the song Billie Jean by Michael Jackson)

📛Billie Jean King 🎾 (tennis player)

📛Billie Eilish 🎤(singer)

📛Billie Piper 🎤/🎥 (singer & actress)

📛Billie Burke (born Mary William) 🎥 (actress who played 🧙‍♀️✨Glinda in the original The Wizard of Oz)

📛Billie Lourd 🎥 (actress & daughter of actress Carrie Fisher of 🌟Star Wars)

📛Billie Dane (💗daughter of late actor Eric Dane & actress Rebecca Gayheart)

📛Billie Boullet 🎥 (actress)

📛Billie Wright 📘 (character in the book Love You More by Emily Giffin)

📛Billie Joe Armstrong 🤘🎤 (lead singer of band 💚Green Day)

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Billie: 

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/B/BI/BILLIE/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Billie: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/ 10 

📌📖READ ☔IRN📛 💭piece: Is Scottie the new Billie? 🤔

https://itsrainingnames.blogspot.com/2026/04/is-scottie-new-billie.html?m=1