Lilly
Lilly places #252 across the country in 2025, holding steady. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 66,728 bearers and counting.
What Lilly carries
Lilly · English
“lily”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Lilly’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Lilly, 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.
Lilly since 1880
Lilly peaked in 2010 at #106; #252 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Lilly is most common
Lilly is most common in North Dakota: 0.3% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. West Virginia (0.24%) and Montana (0.21%) follow.
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 Lilly
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Lane
#250 in 2025
Lennon
#214 in 2025
Legend
#193 in 2025
Lila
#187 in 2025
Lilah
#179 in 2025
Landon
#127 in 2025
Lydia
#92 in 2025 · Greek
Luka
#85 in 2025 · Latin
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About Lilly
How popular is the name Lilly?
Lilly places #252 across the country in 2025, holding steady. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Lilly have a meaning on record?
The reference we cite records “lily”, of English origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Lilly?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Lane, Lennon and Legend, 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 Lilly’s free Name Kit
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