Lillian
The 2025 national count puts Lillian at #57, keeping its place without fuss. Its high-water mark came in 1920, which makes it a grandparent-generation name enjoying its afterlife.
Lillian’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Lillian, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Lillian since 1880
Lillian peaked in 1920 at #18; #57 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Lillian is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Lillian runs strongest in Vermont at 1.23% in 2025, then Maine and North Dakota.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Lillian
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Clara
#63 in 2025 · Latin
Ruby
#64 in 2025
Vivian
#72 in 2025 · Latin
Arthur
#87 in 2025 · Celtic
Anna
#107 in 2025 · Hebrew
Rose
#114 in 2025 · Latin
Esther
#119 in 2025 · Persian
Elsie
#123 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with L · all names
About Lillian
How popular is the name Lillian?
The 2025 national count puts Lillian at #57, keeping its place without fuss. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Lillian?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Lillian. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
What names go with Lillian?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Clara, Ruby and Vivian, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Lillian’s free Name Kit
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