Lillee
Lillee was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,346 among girls’ names; 1,085 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Lillee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lillee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lillee?
#7,346 among girls’ names, 2025
Lillee fell from #2,763 in 2015 to #7,346 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.9 to 9.3 per million.
77 babies in 2009, the peak
Lillee peaked in 2009, when 77 girls were given it, #2,477 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,346 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,377 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,557 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,168 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,300 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,411 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,406 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,289 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,280 | 28.4 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,044 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,763 | 35.9 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,907 | 33.0 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,696 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 74 | #2,489 | 42.0 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,605 | 39.2 |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,443 | 43.3 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,477 | 41.9 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,357 | 26.4 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,635 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,449 | 24.7 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,147 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,770 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,331 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,795 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,994 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,348 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,126 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,396 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lillee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lillee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lillee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lillee, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,085 Americans ever recorded as Lillee. The median Lillee alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 885 people named Lillee (881 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 950 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 589 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 488 |
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).
How common is the spelling Lillee?
Lillee is a less common spelling of Lily: SSA has recorded 1,085 Lillee and 189,789 Lily since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 429,346 babies since 1880, Lillee is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 8,456 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Lillee
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 Lillee and names like it
- Compare Lillee and LilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLillee peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lillee since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Lillee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lillee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.