Lilie
Lilie was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,646 among girls’ names; 1,473 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lilie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lilie?
#8,646 among girls’ names, 2025
Lilie rose from #9,873 in 2015 to #8,646 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 7.5 per million.
40 babies in 2008, the peak
Lilie peaked in 2008, when 40 girls were given it, #3,976 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,646 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,230 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,343 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,387 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,766 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,770 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,969 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,240 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,577 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,799 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,873 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,608 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,967 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,024 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,200 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,859 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,063 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,976 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,757 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,749 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,898 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,557 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,990 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,567 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,791 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,579 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,008 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,394 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,091 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,602 | 2.7 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,076 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,994 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,937 | 3.6 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,081 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,990 | 3.5 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,861 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,017 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,108 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,795 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,735 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,035 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,514 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,066 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,506 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,245 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,224 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,192 | 14.1 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,674 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,619 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 31 | #1,382 | 27.8 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,813 | 19.1 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,212 | 14.3 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,211 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,674 | 21.4 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,745 | 20.0 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,415 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,665 | 21.6 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,649 | 21.9 |
| 1920 | 31 | #1,457 | 25.9 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,505 | 24.8 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,667 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,625 | 21.3 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,389 | 26.8 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,710 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,699 | 21.0 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,438 | 27.2 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,276 | 32.3 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,504 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 23 | #906 | 58.0 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,131 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,028 | 47.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,463 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,076 | 44.0 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,134 | 41.1 |
| 1904 | 18 | #865 | 65.4 |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,174 | 38.2 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,926 | 18.9 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,044 | 46.0 |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,032 | 46.7 |
| 1899 | 13 | #921 | 55.8 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,325 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,220 | 34.2 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,088 | 42.0 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,170 | 38.5 |
| 1894 | 13 | #882 | 58.3 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,364 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 10 | #991 | 47.1 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,155 | 37.7 |
| 1890 | 11 | #856 | 57.8 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,084 | 39.2 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,220 | 33.6 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,236 | 34.3 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,201 | 34.6 |
| 1885 | 6 | #994 | 45.1 |
| 1881 | 5 | #896 | 54.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lilie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lilie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lilie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lilie, and how old are they?
An estimated 647 Americans named Lilie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 860 people named Lilie (856 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 637 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above 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).
How common is the spelling Lilie?
Lilie is a less common spelling of Lily: SSA has recorded 1,473 Lilie and 189,789 Lily since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 537,778 babies since 1880, Lilie is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 12,070 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 Lilie
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 Lilie and names like it
- Compare Lilie and LilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLilie peaked in 2008.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lilie since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Lilie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lilie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.