Lile
Lile was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,196 among girls’ names; 121 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lile by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lile?
#14,196 among girls’ names, 2025
Lile rose from #18,024 in 2015 to #14,196 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.7 per million.
15 babies in 1916, the peak
Lile peaked in 1916, when 15 babies were given it (7 girls, #3,751 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,196 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,666 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,696 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,687 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,991 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,024 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,295 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,670 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,360 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,322 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,820 | |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,621 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,013 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,970 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #3,993 | |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,438 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,699 | |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,213 | 7 | #3,681 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,751 | 8 | #3,068 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lile a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 121 Americans recorded as Lile, 74% are girls and 26% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lile: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lile, and how old are they?
An estimated 53 Americans named Lile 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 260 people named Lile (192 women and girls, 68 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 37 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lile rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 595,482 babies since 1880, Lile is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 16,338 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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.
More about Lile and names like it
- Compare Lile and LilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLile peaked in 1916.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lile since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Lile.
- Names starting with LMost given first.