How Many People Are Named Lillie?

42,278

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

About 1 in 8,084 people in the US has this name

Based on 159,791 babies named Lillie in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,026

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#528

See the top 100

Peak Year

1919

3,277 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: LIL-ee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of LILY.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Lillie in English. Counting Lillie and these spellings together, about 273,789 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.7%
Male
0.3%

Almost all of the babies given the name Lillie (99.7%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Lillie alive today is about 54 years old, and 58% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 20 and 79 in 2025.

Under 30 13,905
32.9%
30 to 59 3,957
9.4%
60 and over 24,416
57.8%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Lillie first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1919, to 3,277 babies. In 2025, 420 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Lillie never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #33, in 1881, and it was in the top 100 for 48 years, 1880 to 1927. In 2025 it ranked #676.

Girls
Rank in 2025#676
Best rank#33 (1881)
Years in the top 10048 (1880 to 1927)
Rank in its biggest decade#96 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Lillie were born in Texas than in any other state: about 3,894 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lillie was given 4.9 times as often in Mississippi, 4.3 times in South Carolina and 3.6 times in Alabama.

Texas 3,894
Georgia 3,350
Mississippi 3,324
Alabama 2,873
North Carolina 2,862
South Carolina 2,773
Louisiana 2,064
Florida 1,884
Tennessee 1,714
California 1,388
Virginia 1,292
Kentucky 1,227
Arkansas 1,225
Ohio 966
Illinois 959
Missouri 785
Oklahoma 757
New York 698
Pennsylvania 680
Indiana 652
Michigan 615
Arizona 373
West Virginia 301
Maryland 278
Washington 264
Utah 261
Colorado 225
New Jersey 194
Minnesota 190
Wisconsin 190
Kansas 179
Oregon 164
Iowa 159
New Mexico 102
Massachusetts 79
Idaho 76
Nebraska 75
District of Columbia 55
Nevada 34
Connecticut 11
Wyoming 7
South Dakota 6
Montana 5
North Dakota 1

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