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Lilli

#3,952 in 2025Girls' name

Flower

Lilli has been given to 3,383 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #3,952 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 174 recorded.

Babies named Lilli, 2025

1 in 89,600

Lilli over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lilli: meaning, origin, and history

Flower

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lilli means

Lilli means “flower”, associated with lill.

Origin, language, and formation

Lilli is used in Danish, Estonian, Finnish and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elisabeth and Lilja.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Lilli is pronounced /ˈlilːi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,383 girls were recorded with the name Lilli between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 174 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,339 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,207 in 2020 to #3,952 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,518 in 2015 to #3,952 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 Lilli?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,952
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lilli 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 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lilli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lillis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lilli was born before 2006 — so the typical Lilli is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,279
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (1,302).

Is Lilli 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
+56
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−745
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,434
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.51×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.3%
Peak was 2006 (174)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,339
2006

Spellings of Lilli

Lilli is not the most common spelling — Lillian is, with 27.5% against Lilli's 0.20%.

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 Lilli is used

Across 1910–2025, Lilli was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 119,754 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2Missouri1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Iowa1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Kansas1 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. Lilli has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lilli around the world

Where Lilli 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
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2019
    #765
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2004–2013
    #440
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2006–2019
    #716
    in 2019
  • France
    1909–2021
    #6,872
    in 2021
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #273
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2022
    #2,577
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1955–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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 Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, 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 Lilli

People whose public names include Lilli, 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.

Lilli in other languages

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

LiliLillLilyLilleLillyLiliya

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

Lilli by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,952
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 745
Best rank ever
#1,339
2006
Peak year
2006
174 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,383
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Lilli

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

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Names with a curve like Lilli

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

GizelleJamiyaAriyanaAniahRileeKloeLaniyaRileighJaelaBrissaAbbygailShaniyah

Sibling names for Lilli

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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