Lily
Nationally, Lily lands at #18 for 2025, and more parents pick it every year. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 189,644 American bearers across the record.
Lily’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Lily, 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.
Lily since 1880
Lily peaked in 2011 at #15; #18 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Lily is most common
Among the states, Lily takes its largest share in Hawaii, 1.26% of the girls' names recorded there in 2025, with District of Columbia and Vermont next.
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 Lily
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Luca
#14 in 2025 · Latin
Lucy
#25 in 2025 · Latin
Levi
#12 in 2025 · Hebrew
Luna
#27 in 2025
Lainey
#30 in 2025
Lucas
#10 in 2025 · Latin
Luke
#33 in 2025 · Latin
Layla
#36 in 2025
Browse: names starting with L · all names
About Lily
How common is Lily today?
Nationally, Lily lands at #18 for 2025, and more parents pick it every year. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Lily mean?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Lily. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
Is there a sibling name for Lily?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Luca, Lucy and Levi, 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 Lily’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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