How Many People Are Named Lilly?
people named Lilly are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 6,194 people in the US has this name
Based on 66,752 babies named Lilly in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,891 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
English variant of LILY. It is also used in Scandinavia, as a form of LILY or a diminutive of ELISABETH.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Lilly in English. Counting Lilly and these spellings together, about 273,789 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Lilly in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Lilly alive today is about 18 years old, and 90% are under 30. Half of them were between 9 and 20 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Lilly first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2010, to 2,891 babies. In 2025, 1,218 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Lilly has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #103, in 2011. In 2025 it ranked #252.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #252 |
| Best rank | #103 (2011) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #134 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Lilly alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Lilly were born in California than in any other state: about 4,925 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lilly was given 2.2 times as often in West Virginia, 1.9 times in Kentucky and 1.9 times in New Mexico.
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