Lilly

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Lilly is ranked 259th among girls in 2024 (1,217 births). Its best rank was 103rd, in 2011.

Rank in 2024: #259down 2 from 2023
Births in 2024: 1,2170.08% of girls
Peak year: 20102,890 births
Best rank: #103in 2011
Since 1880: 65,475people given the name

Babies named Lilly, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

65,475 girls have been named Lilly in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 2,890 births — 0.16% of all girls recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 124 → 259).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 36%. It has spent 115 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Lilly
1880s	781
1890s	1,107
1900s	1,314
1910s	2,369
1920s	2,964
1930s	2,034
1940s	1,596
1950s	1,416
1960s	1,133
1970s	632
1980s	713
1990s	2,270
2000s	17,270
2010s	23,508
2020s	6,368

In 2010, its biggest year

Lilly was the 106th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2010 were Isabella, Sophia, Emma, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2010.

Names that rose and fell with Lilly

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.