Lilyan
Lilyan was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,131 among girls’ names; 4,339 Americans have been recorded with it since 1895 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,790 Americans named Lilyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lilyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lilyan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lilyan is “a female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lilyan?
#4,131 among girls’ names, 2025
Lilyan fell from #2,157 in 2015 to #4,131 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 49.3 to 21.8 per million.
194 babies in 2007, the peak
Lilyan peaked in 2007, when 194 girls were given it, #1,270 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,131 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,010 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,878 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,197 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,649 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,588 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,255 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,228 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,498 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,337 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 88 | #2,157 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,933 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 142 | #1,543 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 147 | #1,513 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 167 | #1,378 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,462 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 185 | #1,311 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 193 | #1,292 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 194 | #1,270 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 147 | #1,500 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 127 | #1,603 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 123 | #1,596 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 101 | #1,837 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,277 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,678 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,774 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,155 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,486 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,548 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,257 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,839 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,771 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,653 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,414 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,246 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,604 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,983 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,361 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,969 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,526 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,019 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,936 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,672 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,246 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,038 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,082 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,261 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,786 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,026 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,602 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,130 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,834 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,330 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,051 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,338 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,507 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,581 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,880 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,549 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,214 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,057 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,883 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,738 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,774 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,585 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,218 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 58 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 71 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 77 | #802 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 124 | #641 | 0.11 |
| 1917 | 121 | #622 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 123 | #610 | 0.12 |
| 1915 | 120 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1914 | 84 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 63 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1912 | 60 | #643 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 43 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 34 | #733 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 26 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 17 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 28 | #720 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 24 | #753 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,217 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,058 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,104 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,186 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 17 | #931 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,222 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,726 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,513 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lilyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lilyan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lilyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lilyan, and how old are they?
2,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 64% of the 4,339 Americans ever recorded as Lilyan. The median Lilyan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,334 people named Lilyan (2,334 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,609 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 55 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 36 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 19 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 83 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,740 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 851 |
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 Lilyan born?
The states with the most babies named Lilyan are New York, California and Illinois, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 393 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 175 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 174 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 169 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 151 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 143 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 86 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 80 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 71 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 57 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Lilyan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lilyan is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 Lilyan 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 510,539 babies since 1880, Lilyan is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 4,704 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Lilyan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1890-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Aili | 1,376 |
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 Lilyan and names like it
- Compare Lilyan and LillianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLilyan peaked in 2007.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lilyan since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Lilyan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lilyan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.