Lilya — #4505 US girls' name
570 babies named Lilya in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 74% of names given to girls today.
47% of everyone ever named Lilya was born in this single decade.
36 babies were named Lilya in 2021 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lilya
The Social Security Administration has registered 570 babies named Lilya between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lilya currently holds the #4505 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 36 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lilya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 267 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Lilya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Lilya in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lilya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 570 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Lilya at a glance
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Current rank
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Lilya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1993
- Peak year (2021)
- 36
- Annual births at peak — across 32 years of records
Currently ranks #4505 among girls.
570 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2021 with 36 births in a single year.
Lilya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 267 births that decade — 47% of Lilya's all-time total
Lilya decade highlights
- Peak decade 267 births
- Runner-up 161 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Lilya's strongest decade
267 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Lilya by state
Where Lilya concentrates geographically — total births since 1993
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 34 | 6.0% |
| #2 | New York | | 23 | 4.0% |
| #3 | Florida | | 10 | 1.8% |
34 of 570 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 6.0% of nationwide
- New York 4.0% of nationwide
- Florida 1.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1993–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.