The first name Lilly could be a diminutive of Elizabeth, which would give the meaning of ‘God is fullness, perfection’. The name is also often attributed the meaning of ‘lily’ in reference to the flower.
Lilly is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Lilly isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Lilly ranks 145. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 12 were named Lilly. In the entire USA, approximately 55,219 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lilly. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The first name Lilly could be a diminutive of Elizabeth, which would give the meaning of ‘God is fullness, perfection’. The name is also often attributed the meaning of ‘lily’ in reference to the flower.
The lily is often associated... with purity, innocence, and virtue, as its white petals are said to symbolize the absence of sin or impurity. It can also be seen as a symbol for motherhood, resurrection, and renewal.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few girls' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 432 girls' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Lilly is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Lilly has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2011, the name even made it to rank #99 of the most popular girls' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lilly was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 1,295 girls were born and given the name Lilly by their parents. That puts Lilly at #220 on our list of most popular girls' names. It was much less popular in 1984 - only 47 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter and it ranked 1,945 on the popularity scale of all girls' names.
The name Lilly may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Lilly is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,207 women in Nevada is called Lilly. In total, that’s 370 women who feel addressed when the name Lilly is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #307 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Lilly as the answer a total of 55,213 times. This places Lilly at #488 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Lilly as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With five letters, the name Lilly is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lilly and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lilly, you can simply say:
Lion
Igloo
Lion
Lion
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lilly
Lilly
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
I
L
L
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
I
L
L
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lilly sounds like this:
