How Many People Are Named Lili?

3,636

people named Lili are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 94,000 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,862 babies named Lili in Social Security records from 1912 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,569

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,577

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Peak Year

2003

139 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: German, French, Hungarian
Pronunciation: LI-lee (German), LEE-LEE (French)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

German, French and Hungarian diminutive of ELISABETH, also sometimes connected to the German word lilie meaning "lily". In Hungarian, it can also be diminutive of KAROLINA or JÚLIA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Lili in the records were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Lili alive today is about 28 years old, and 67% are under 30. Half of them were between 14 and 38 in 2025.

Under 30 2,447
67.3%
30 to 59 695
19.1%
60 and over 494
13.6%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Lili first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 2003, to 139 babies. In 2025, 61 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Lili has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,336, in 1954. In 2025 it ranked #2,800.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,800
Best rank#1,336 (1954)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,800 in the 2000s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Lili alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Lili were born in California than in any other state: about 650 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lili was given 3.4 times as often in California, 2.2 times in New York and 1.6 times in Texas.

California 650
Texas 227
New York 195
Florida 78
Illinois 49
Georgia 28
Ohio 26
Washington 22
Michigan 18
Massachusetts 17
North Carolina 13
Colorado 11
Maryland 10
Minnesota 8
Virginia 7
Oklahoma 5
Missouri 5
Louisiana 5
Pennsylvania 4

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