Lilly
Lilly is a girl's name that peaked in 2010, when it was the 106th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 252nd. About 55,000 Lillys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lilly boys named Lilly
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 66,752
- Estimated living today
- 55,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2010
- Best rank
- 106th
- Rank in 2025
- 252nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 66,728 / 24
How old the living Lillys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 66,752 babies given the name since 1880, about 55,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 36,000 of them are children and 2,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Lillys
- Lilly King (born 1997)American swimmer
- Lilly Singh (born 1988)Canadian YouTube personality, vlogger and comedian
- Lilly Reich (1885–1947)German designer
- Lilly Platt (born 2008)British environmentalist
- Lilly Scholz (1903–1994)figure skater
- Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902)American painter
- Lilly Steinschneider (1891–1975)Austro-Hungarian aviator
- Lilly Becher (1901–1978)German writer
People named Lilly with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lilly is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lilly is most concentrated in Nevada (2.0×), Utah (1.8×), Arizona (1.8×), Idaho (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2010
The most popular girls’ names the year Lilly peaked:
Lilly elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Lilly | 22,050 | 27th |
| Sweden girls | Lilly | 8,460 | 2nd |
| France girls | Lilly | 5,110 | 154th |
| Norway girls | Lilly | 3,459 | 30th |
| Scotland girls | Lilly | 1,419 | 42nd |
| Ireland girls | Lilly | 1,302 | 75th |
| Switzerland girls | Lilly | 1,228 | 89th |
| Belgium girls | Lilly | 1,152 | 112th |
| New Zealand girls | Lilly | 1,046 | 39th |
| Austria girls | Lilly | 960 | 43rd |
| Poland girls | Lilly | 782 birth registrations | 139th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Lilly | 293 | 106th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lilly: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Lilly | 1,102 | 0.089% | 74th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Lilly | 119 | 0.027% | 132nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Lilly | 6 | 0.009% | 170th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Lilly | 1 | 0.027% | 11th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Lilly is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.12% of children were given it – 46 of them.
Lilly: rank by region
In 2025, Lilly was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lilly | 198 | 28 |
| Wallonia | Lilly | 327 | 8 |
In 2025, Lilly was given 2 times or more in 8 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Lilly | 167 | 2 |
| Łódzkie | Lilly | 151 | 3 |
| Małopolskie | Lilly | 177 | 4 |
| Podkarpackie | Lilly | 139 | 3 |
| Śląskie | Lilly | 255 | 2 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Lilly | 131 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Lilly | 204 | 3 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Lilly | 110 | 5 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lilly appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (154th), Province of Flemish Brabant (164th) and Province of Antwerp (182nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Lilly by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 515 | 42nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Lilly among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Lilly | 237 | 389 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Lilly against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.