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Lili

#2,800 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly lily, through Lily

Lili has been given to 3,862 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #2,800 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 139 recorded.

Babies named Lili, 2025

1 in 54,300

Lili over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lili: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly lily, through Lily

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lili means

Lili belongs to the name family reached through Lili → Lily → Lilian. Its meaning is “lily”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lili is used in English, Albanian, Atayal, Basque, German and Hungarian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lily, Elisabeth, Emily, Lilly and Lilian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Lili is pronounced [ˈlili].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,862 girls were recorded with the name Lili between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 139 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,336 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,047 in 2020 to #2,800 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,955 in 2015 to #2,800 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lili?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 54,300
61 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,800
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lili sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lili. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lilis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lili was born before 2002 — so the typical Lili is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,721
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Choose a decade

2000s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (1,098).

Is Lili rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+197
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+247
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+155
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.9%
Peak was 2003 (139)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,336
1954

Spellings of Lili

Lili is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 32.5% against Lili's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lili is used

Across 1910–2025, Lili was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 78,803 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lili has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lili around the world

Where Lili ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #551
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1999–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2023
    #391
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2003–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    1904–2025
    #570
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Lili

People whose public names include Lili, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lili in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lili. Linked forms have their own page here.

LilaLileLilyLiliaLilitLiljaLilliLillyLiliyaLiletteLiliána

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lili by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,800
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 247
Best rank ever
#1,336
1954
Peak year
2003
139 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,862
Count in 2025
61

Names similar to Lili

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Lili

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lili, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ZaidaJaciMeliaMarygraceRiaMaleaNoeliaAllanaMadelinVeronikaAlonaMalena

Sibling names for Lili

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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