Lylia
Lylia was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,249 among girls’ names; 425 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lylia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lylia?
#14,249 among girls’ names, 2025
Lylia fell from #7,145 in 2015 to #14,249 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 3.7 per million.
21 babies in 2013, the peak
Lylia peaked in 2013, when 21 girls were given it, #6,158 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,249 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,735 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,774 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,321 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,550 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,780 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,486 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,264 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,581 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,689 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,145 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,187 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,158 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,930 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,475 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,737 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,921 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,276 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,821 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,524 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,512 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,380 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,268 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,053 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,633 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,242 | 3.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,851 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,406 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,961 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,497 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,748 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,641 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,062 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,776 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,251 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,079 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,063 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,793 | 4.1 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,135 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,594 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,619 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,708 | 6.6 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,279 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,146 | 4.3 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,898 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,475 | 4.2 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,720 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,583 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lylia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lylia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lylia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lylia, and how old are they?
An estimated 345 Americans named Lylia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 451 people named Lylia (448 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 312 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45% 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 Lylia?
Lylia is a less common spelling of Lilia: SSA has recorded 425 Lylia and 14,319 Lilia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 185,958 babies since 1880, Lylia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 7,196 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 Lylia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Audree | 3,727 |
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 Lylia and names like it
- Compare Lylia and LiliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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