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Lilla

#5,046 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Lívia

Lilla has been given to 4,440 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,046 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Lilla, 2025

1 in 128,000

Lilla 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lilla: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Lívia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lilla means

Lilla is a diminutive of Lívia.

Origin, language, and formation

Lilla is used in Hungarian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lívia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Lilla is pronounced [ˈlilːɒ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,440 girls were recorded with the name Lilla between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1918; its best national rank was #262 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,217 in 2020 to #5,046 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,816 in 2015 to #5,046 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 Lilla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,046
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lilla 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lilla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lillas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lilla was born before 1924 — so the typical Lilla is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,214
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 14.8% of all recorded uses (657).

Is Lilla 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
−705
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,171
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,230
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.6%
Peak was 1918 (85)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#262
1880

Spellings of Lilla

Lilla is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 25.9% against Lilla's 0.08%.

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 Lilla is used

Across 1910–2025, Lilla was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 82,430 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 10,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 33,333
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Louisiana1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 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. Lilla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lilla around the world

Where Lilla 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
    2003–2024
    #3,696
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2014–2014
    #802
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2010–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • France
    1902–2022
    #3,971
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2008–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1967–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Lilla

People whose public names include Lilla, 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.

Lilla in other languages

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

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

Lilla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,046
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,171
Best rank ever
#262
1880
Peak year
1918
85 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,440
Count in 2025
26

Names similar to Lilla

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

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Names with a curve like Lilla

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

EdaLydaVinaZulaLelahSudieMallieMittieMellieMyrtieLennieVallie

Sibling names for Lilla

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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