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Lily
Pronounced /ˈlɪli/
Rank in 2024
#24
Born in 2024
6,093
Peak year
2011 · #15
Origin
English
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 6,093 girls were named Lily, about 1 in every 265.
- It peaked in 2011 with 8,192 babies, ranked #15.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 182,901 girls have been named Lily since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Lily per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 2.9Gen Z1997–12
- 3.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 6,824 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Silent: 3,857 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,587 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,923 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,063 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Gen Z: 85,567 babies, 2.95 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 73,295 babies, 3.61 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A 19th-century flower name, from lily. Also a diminutive of Lilian and sometimes Elizabeth.
- A female given name from English, popular around 1900 and currently returning to favor.
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- /ˈlɪli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Lily, CC BY-SA 4.0.