Lily is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The first name Lily is one of the top 100 most popular girls names in the US – currently at #23 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Lily, accounting for approximately 0.40 % of all newborn girls. In the entire USA, approximately 162,895 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lily. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
Lily Allen (*1985)
Lily Allen, born Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper, is an English singer-songwriter and an actress with international success. Her debut album, 'Alright, Still,' was released in 2006 and featured her groundbreaking hit single 'Smile'. She won several awards for her music including a Brit Award and BMI Awards. Lily Allen is also known for her outspoken personality and her opinions on various political and social issues.
Lily Collins (*1989)
Lily Jane Collins is an English-American actress, model, and writer. She is the daughter of the successful English musician Phil Collins and Jill Tavelman. Her performance in 'The Blind Side' (2009) is considered her breakthrough. She since starred in several films such as 'Priest' (2011), 'Abduction' (2011), 'Mirror Mirror' (2012), 'The English Teacher' (2013), or 'Love, Rosie' (2014) as well as in tv-series like 'Emily in Paris'.
Lily Tomlin (*1939)
Mary Jean 'Lily' Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer and producer. Starting her career as a stand-up comedian as well as performing off-Broadway, she had her breakthrough with the show 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In' (1969
Lily Aldridge (*1985)
Lily Maud Aldridge is an American model and actress. She best known for acting as 'Victoria's Secret Angel' from 2010 until 2018. In 2014, Aldridge appeared in the Sports Illustrated 'Swimsuit Issue', alongside Chrissy Teigen and Nina Agdal, for the 50th anniversary cover. She graced the cover of International Vogue several times and worked for designer brands such as Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, and Jimmy Choo.
When you hear the name Lily, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Lily? Are you also called Lily? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
are called Lily. One of them is located in Laurel County, Kentucky, while the other one is located within the town of Langlade, Wisconsin.
in the state of Maine, Moosehead Lake, contains Lily Bay. It was named for the wild lilies near its shores and is surrounded by Lily Bay State Park, a public recreation area.
of Amelup and Borden you can watch one of Australia's few traditional windmills working: The Lily Stirling Range is also known as 'The Lily Dutch Windmill'.
Lily is the epitome of persistance. Every single year since first names have been registered in the United States, parents have come up with the idea of naming their daughter Lily. This means that several girls and women named Lily have witnessed major events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Lily has reached its best rank of 15 several times, most recently in 2012. Moreover, the name has been in the top 100 numerous times. This makes Lily one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lily was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Lily will be Lily. Like every other year, there were newborns named Lily in 2022 – in fact 5,966 to be precise, confirming Lily is still a very popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #30 among all girls‘ names. Incidentally, the least popular year for Lily was 1977, when only 107 baby girls were named Lily.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Lily. Because: There are women and girls named Lily in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Lily is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Utah, where Lily ranks on place 83. The greatest chance of meeting Lily, however, is in Hawaii, where one in 375 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 947 women and girls and in West Virginia, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 2,141 women and girls for their name before you once get Lily as an answer.
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 four letters, the name Lily is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Lily 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 Lily, you can simply say:
Lion
Igloo
Lion
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lily
Lily
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
I
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
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. Lily sounds like this:
