Lily
Lily is ranked 24th among girls in 2024 (6,093 births). Its best rank was 15th, in 2011.
- Rank in 2024
- #24down 4 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6,0930.38% of girls
- Peak year
- 20118,192 births
- Best rank
- #15in 2011
- Since 1880
- 182,901people given the name
The story in the numbers
182,901 girls have been named Lily in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 8,192 births — 0.47% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 27 → 24).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 37%. It has spent 134 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lily | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 680 | |
| 1890s | 979 | |
| 1900s | 1,045 | |
| 1910s | 2,795 | |
| 1920s | 3,757 | |
| 1930s | 2,229 | |
| 1940s | 1,511 | |
| 1950s | 1,426 | |
| 1960s | 1,148 | |
| 1970s | 1,219 | |
| 1980s | 2,709 | |
| 1990s | 9,771 | |
| 2000s | 56,184 | |
| 2010s | 68,298 | |
| 2020s | 29,150 |
In 2011, its biggest year
Lily was the 15th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2011 were Sophia, Isabella, Emma, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2011.
Names that rose and fell with Lily
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sophiapeak 2012
- Sofiepeak 2012
- Isabellapeak 2010
- Yarelipeak 2009
- Nariahpeak 2009
- Kemanipeak 2011
- Jariahpeak 2009
- Fernandapeak 2009
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.