Lili
Lili was given to 61 girls in 2025, #2,800 among girls’ names; 3,862 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,630 Americans named Lili and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lili by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lili mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lili is “a female given name, variant of Lily.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lili?
#2,800 among girls’ names, 2025
Lili rose from #2,955 in 2015 to #2,800 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 33.1 to 38.0 per million.
139 babies in 2003, the peak
Lili peaked in 2003, when 139 girls were given it, #1,428 among girls’ names. The 61 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,800 | 38.0 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,997 | 33.9 |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,509 | 44.2 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,622 | 40.9 |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,025 | 33.5 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,047 | 32.8 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,308 | 28.6 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,032 | 31.7 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,806 | 35.3 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,788 | 35.0 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,955 | 33.1 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,525 | 39.7 |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,295 | 46.2 |
| 2012 | 90 | #2,125 | 51.1 |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,010 | 55.7 |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,108 | 52.9 |
| 2009 | 90 | #2,199 | 49.0 |
| 2008 | 119 | #1,818 | 62.9 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,029 | 52.5 |
| 2006 | 115 | #1,803 | 60.5 |
| 2005 | 123 | #1,636 | 66.6 |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,729 | 61.0 |
| 2003 | 139 | #1,428 | 76.1 |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,474 | 72.3 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,947 | 49.4 |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,066 | 44.1 |
| 1999 | 99 | #1,670 | 55.8 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,263 | 35.7 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,061 | 39.6 |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,239 | 34.2 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,858 | 23.9 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,339 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,344 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,004 | 21.2 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,251 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,321 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,384 | 26.6 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,900 | 20.2 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,980 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,707 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,674 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,091 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,387 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,377 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,441 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,868 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,288 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,447 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,991 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,060 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,012 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,953 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,565 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,232 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,045 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,422 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,737 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,829 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,830 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,809 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,227 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,782 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,409 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 34 | #2,008 | 17.3 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,223 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,588 | 24.7 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,807 | 18.8 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,096 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,646 | 21.0 |
| 1956 | 54 | #1,442 | 26.9 |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,525 | 23.0 |
| 1954 | 56 | #1,336 | 28.8 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,908 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 26 | #2,001 | 14.0 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,531 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,339 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,930 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,385 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,587 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,968 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,856 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,546 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,673 | 5.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,769 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,870 | 8.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,700 | 4.7 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,252 | 4.2 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,715 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,799 | 4.9 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,589 | 5.2 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,824 | 4.8 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,937 | 6.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,816 | 10.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lili a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lili has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lili: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lili, and how old are they?
3,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 3,862 Americans ever recorded as Lili. The median Lili alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 8,870 people named Lili (8,779 women and girls, 91 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lili rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 441 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 305 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 473 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 793 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Lili born?
The states with the most babies named Lili are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,403 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,543 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,347 | 0.4× |
Where Lili is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lili is most over-represented in California: since 1912 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lili with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 599,223 babies since 1880, Lili is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 16,393 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lili
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 Lili and names like it
- Compare Lili and LilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLili peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lili since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Lili.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lili alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.