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Lilya

#4,709 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Liliya

Lilya has been given to 599 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #4,709 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Lilya, 2025

1 in 114,000

Lilya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lilya: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Liliya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lilya means

Lilya is a alternate transcription of Liliya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Liliya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 599 girls were recorded with the name Lilya between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2021; its best national rank was #4,054 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,322 in 2020 to #4,709 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,946 in 2015 to #4,709 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.

How common is Lilya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,709
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lilya 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lilya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lilyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lilya was born before 2015 — so the typical Lilya is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
599
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (267).

Is Lilya 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
−181
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−387
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,237
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.6%
Peak was 2021 (36)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,054
2021

Spellings of Lilya

Lilya is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 37.4% against Lilya'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 Lilya is used

Across 1910–2025, Lilya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 464,501 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Lilya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lilya around the world

Where Lilya 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
    2003–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2014
    #802
    in 2014
  • France
    1972–2025
    #233
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,075
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lilya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,709
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 387
Best rank ever
#4,054
2021
Peak year
2021
36 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
599
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Lilya

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

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Sibling names for Lilya

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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