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Lilo

#3,231 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Liselotte

Lilo has been given to 467 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #3,231 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Lilo, 2025

1 in 67,700

Lilo over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lilo: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Liselotte

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lilo means

Lilo is a short form of Liselotte.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Liselotte.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 462 girls were recorded with the name Lilo between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,231 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,718 in 2020 to #3,231 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,140 in 2015 to #3,231 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Lilo between 2024 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2024; its best national rank was #13,447 in 2024.

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.

How common is Lilo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,231
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lilo 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lilo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lilos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lilo was born before 2020 — so the typical Lilo is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
462
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (258).

Is Lilo 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
+635
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+487
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,909
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (49)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,231
2025

Spellings of Lilo

Lilo is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 43.6% against Lilo's 0.02%.

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 Lilo is used

Across 1910–2025, Lilo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 526,298 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Lilo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lilo around the world

Where Lilo 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
    2009–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2025
    #1,403
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lilo by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,231
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 487
Best rank ever
#3,231
2025
Peak year
2025
49 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
462
Count in 2025
49

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,447
2024
Peak year
2024
5 that year
First recorded
2024
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lilo

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

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Sibling names for Lilo

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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