Lilymae

#7,349 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Lilymae has been given to 238 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #7,349 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Lilymae, 2025

1 in 221,000

Lilymae over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Lilymae?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,349
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lilymae 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lilymae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lilymaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lilymae was born before 2017 — so the typical Lilymae is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
231
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Choose a decade

2010s — 54.2% of all recorded uses (129).

Is Lilymae 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
−1,284
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,422
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,377
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2023 (21)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,214
1920

Spellings of Lilymae

Lilymae is not the most common spelling — Lilyan is, with 83.8% against Lilymae's 4.6%.

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.

Lilymae around the world

Where Lilymae 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
    #719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #474
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2011–2023
    #391
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2019
    #2,629
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1997–2011
    #514
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lilymae by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,349
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,422
Best rank ever
#4,214
1920
Peak year
2023
21 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
238
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Lilymae

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

Sibling names for Lilymae

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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