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Liliana vs Lilyann

American parents have registered 75,146 Lilianas since 1880, against 3,377 Lilyanns. Liliana is still ahead, with 3,118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Liliana Lilyann

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 78 years in which either name was published, Liliana for 76 years and Lilyann for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Liliana Lilyann
Total US births 75,1463,377
Most in one year 3,118210
Babies in 2025 3,11890
Estimated living today 74,0003,300
Median age today 1313
Peak year 20252013
Best rank 78th girls1,144th girls
Rank in 2025 78th2,076th
First recorded 19501916
Girls / boys 74,990 / 1563,377 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Liliana Lilyann
England and Wales 4,49866
Ireland 50512

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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