Lilas
Lilas was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 361 Americans have been recorded with it between 1908 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lilas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lilas?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,509, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1916, the peak
Lilas peaked in 1916, when 18 girls were given it, #1,915 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,509 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,764 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,911 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,220 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,107 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,524 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,763 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,023 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,665 | 2.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,955 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 6 | #4,211 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,833 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,112 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,954 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,590 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,650 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,003 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,175 | 8.4 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,880 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,510 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,616 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,630 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,210 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,557 | 11.5 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,751 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,227 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,756 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,867 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,417 | 12.5 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,582 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,596 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,150 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,915 | 17.2 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,008 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,198 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,839 | 19.2 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,388 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,992 | 17.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lilas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lilas has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lilas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lilas, and how old are they?
An estimated 75 Americans named Lilas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 208 people named Lilas (207 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 80 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,657 babies since 1880, Lilas is the second most given (22% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lilas
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lilas and names like it
- Compare Lilas and LillisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLilas peaked in 1916.
- Wisconsin’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lilas since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Lilas.
- Names starting with LMost given first.