Lillie Girl
How popular is Lillie?
#675 girl name in 2025
420 baby girls were named Lillie in the US in 2025, making it the 675th most popular girl name.
Lillie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #675 for girls (▲ 7 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 420 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-21% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #576 in 2015, #718 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1919 (3,262 girls) |
| Highest rank | #33 in 1881 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lillie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lily family of names ranked #16 for girls in 2025 (#17 the year before), with 8,475 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lily | 6,673 | 79% |
| Lilly | 1,218 | 14% |
| Lillie | 420 | 5% |
| Lili | 61 | 1% |
| Lilli | 37 | 0% |
| Lillee | 15 | 0% |
| Lilee | 17 | 0% |
| Lilley | 6 | 0% |
| Lilie | 12 | 0% |
| Lileigh | 6 | 0% |
| Lilleigh | 5 | 0% |
| Lylee | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Lillie is most popular
Babies named Lillie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 1.0 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- Arkansas: 0.8 per 1,000 (42 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.7 per 1,000 (64 girls)
- Alabama: 0.7 per 1,000 (67 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.7 per 1,000 (63 girls)
Lillie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 9,467 | #33 |
| 1890s | 14,093 | #35 |
| 1900s | 15,391 | #40 |
| 1910s | 24,651 | #54 |
| 1920s | 29,382 | #85 |
| 1930s | 19,925 | #111 |
| 1940s | 15,357 | #143 |
| 1950s | 9,622 | #202 |
| 1960s | 3,873 | #386 |
| 1970s | 1,404 | #695 |
| 1980s | 1,004 | #1,141 |
| 1990s | 1,615 | #800 |
| 2000s | 5,248 | #426 |
| 2010s | 5,506 | #452 |
| 2020s | 2,380 | #675 |
Girl names about as popular as Lillie
Questions
- Is Lillie a boy or girl name?
- Lillie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lillie were girls.
- How popular is the name Lillie?
- 420 baby girls were named Lillie in the US in 2025, making it the 675th most popular girl name.
- When was Lillie most popular?
- Lillie peaked in 1919, when 3,262 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #33 in 1881.
- How many people are named Lillie?
- 159,791 babies have been named Lillie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 44,274 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 69.
- Where is Lillie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lillie was most common in Mississippi, at 1.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.