Lilie
#8,646 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lilie has been given to 1,473 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #8,646 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 40 recorded.
Babies named Lilie, 2025
1 in 276,000
Lilie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lilie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 134,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,646
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lilie sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lilie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lilies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lilie was born before 1931 — so the typical Lilie is around 94 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 18.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 600
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 18.8% of all recorded uses (277).
Is Lilie 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
- −416
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,124
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,227
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.09×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 30.0%
- Peak was 2008 (40)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Lilie
Lilie is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 21.8% against Lilie's 0.06%.
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 Lilie is used
Across 1910–2025, Lilie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 291,082 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in 100,000
- 3Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6South Carolina1 in —
- 7Wisconsin1 in —
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. Lilie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lilie around the world
Where Lilie 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 & Wales1996–2021#5,581in 2021
- Scotland2010–2011#810in 2011
- Ireland2011–2011#937in 2011
- France1916–2025#1,394in 2025
- Canada2002–2024#3,027in 2024
- South Australia2002–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.
Lilie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lilie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lilie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.