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Liliana vs Lillar

American parents have registered 75,146 Lilianas since 1880, against 104 Lillars. Liliana is still ahead, with 3,118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Liliana against Lillar, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Liliana Lillar

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 93 years in which either name was published, Liliana for 76 years and Lillar for 17 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Liliana Lillar
Total US births 75,146104
Most in one year 3,11810
Babies in 2025 3,118under 5
Estimated living today 74,0004
Median age today 1378
Peak year 20251918
Best rank 78th girls3,024th girls
Rank in 2025 78thunranked
First recorded 19501894
Girls / boys 74,990 / 156104 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lillars alive today are over 78; half the Lilianas are over 13. That is 65 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Liliana and Lillar.