Lily: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced LIL-ee · 2 syllables

Lily means “the lily flower; purity”, from English.

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

How popular is Lily?

Lily was the #18 name in the US in 2025, given to 6,673 babies. Its use has been fairly steady over the last decade. It peaked around 2010.

Babies named Lily in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2010).

Half of US adults named Lily are older than 22; most are between 18 and 56. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Lily have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Lily means “the lily flower; purity”. It comes from English.

Lily is pronounced LIL-ee.

Lily was the #18 name in the US in 2025, given to 6,673 babies. Its use has been fairly steady over the last decade. It peaked around 2010.

Half of US adults named Lily are older than 22. Most are between 18 and 56.