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Lilyan

#4,131 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Latin origin

Lilyan has been given to 4,339 babies in the U.S. since 1895. In 2025 it ranked #4,131 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 194 recorded.

Babies named Lilyan, 2025

1 in 94,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lilyan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Latin origin

Latin

What Lilyan means

Lilyan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lilyan is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,339 girls were recorded with the name Lilyan between 1895 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 194 in 2007; its best national rank was #595 in 1915.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,588 in 2020 to #4,131 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,157 in 2015 to #4,131 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 Lilyan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 45,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,131
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lilyan 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lilyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lilyans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lilyan was born before 2005 — so the typical Lilyan is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,755
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (1,232).

Is Lilyan 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
−121
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,543
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,974
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.0%
Peak was 2007 (194)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#595
1915

Spellings of Lilyan

Lilyan is not the most common spelling — Lillian is, with 50.0% against Lilyan's 0.46%.

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 Lilyan is used

Across 2016–2025, Lilyan was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 69,994 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 33,333
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 33,333
  3. 3Colorado1 in 50,000
  4. 4Missouri1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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.

Lilyan around the world

Where Lilyan 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
    2000–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1938–2024
    #4,943
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #475
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Notable people named Lilyan

People whose public names include Lilyan, 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.

Lilyan in other languages

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

LilianLiljan

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

Lilyan by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,131
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,543
Best rank ever
#595
1915
Peak year
2007
194 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,339
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Lilyan

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

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Names with a curve like Lilyan

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

ZadaIsobelAdelleAudrieEmelineGrayceAnnabellLilliaItaliaIsabellAnnabelEvalyn

Sibling names for Lilyan

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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