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Lily

Girls' name · Current

Living in the US
~176,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#18 among girls
Births in 2025
6,673 189,789 since 1880
Typical age
14 years, median

Lily popularity over time

Lily rank by birth year, 1880–2025Lily ranked #240 in 1880 and #18 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #15, in 2011.#100#1,000#1818901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2011: 8,199 births recorded as Lily. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. It has held a top-100 place in 24 separate years.

As of 2025 the name sits at #18, with 6,673 births that year.

Babies named Lily per yearPeaks at 8,199 births in 2011.8,199 in 2011018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Lily?

About 176,700 people named Lily are alive in the United States today. That is out of 189,789 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Lily?

The typical living Lily is 14 years old. More of them were born in the 2010s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Lily a current name.

Your Lily

Ages of living people named LilyHalf of living Lilys are older than 14 and half younger.median 14020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Lily is most common

The name is concentrated in Vermont, at 2.7× the national rate. Hawaii, Wyoming and New Hampshire follow.

Where Lily is used more than average5 states use the name Lily more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: 2.7× the national rateVTNew Hampshire: 2.2× the national rateNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: 2.1× the national rateMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: 2.4× the national rateWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: 2.6× the national rateHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Lily is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Vermont 113 2.7×
Hawaii 275 2.6×
Wyoming 91 2.4×
New Hampshire 307 2.2×
Montana 227 2.1×

Lily in England and Wales

ONS recorded 2,249 births named Lily in 2025, ranking it #2.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Lily comes from

A 19th-century flower name, from lily. Also a diminutive of Lilian and sometimes Elizabeth.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Lily

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Lily Allen British singer and actress 1985 75
Lily Collins British-American actress 1989 74
Lily Tomlin American actress 1939 61
Lily James English actress 1989 58
Lily Rabe American actress 1982 38
Lily Gladstone American actress 1986 35
Lily Cole English model and actress 1987 33
Lily Aldridge American model 1985 31
Photo credits (8)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

How Lily is usually spelled

Spellings within one or two letters of each other, and how 2025 births divided between them.
SpellingBirths in 2025Share
Lily this page 6,673 94%
Lillie 420 6%

Names similar to Lily

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Lily was in 2025.

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