Lily Girl
How popular is Lily?
#18 girl name in 2025
6,673 baby girls were named Lily in the US in 2025, making it the 18th most popular girl name.
Lily popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #18 for girls (▲ 6 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 6,673 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-0% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #25 in 2015, #35 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2011 (8,192 girls) |
| Highest rank | #15 in 2011 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 5% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lily 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 Lily is most popular
Babies named Lily per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 12.3 per 1,000 (141 girls)
- Vermont: 12.0 per 1,000 (58 girls)
- Wyoming: 10.1 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- Rhode Island: 8.6 per 1,000 (108 girls)
- New Hampshire: 8.6 per 1,000 (158 girls)
Lily by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 680 | #200 |
| 1890s | 979 | #254 |
| 1900s | 1,045 | #287 |
| 1910s | 2,795 | #291 |
| 1920s | 3,757 | #316 |
| 1930s | 2,229 | #389 |
| 1940s | 1,511 | #507 |
| 1950s | 1,426 | #737 |
| 1960s | 1,148 | #904 |
| 1970s | 1,220 | #901 |
| 1980s | 2,708 | #544 |
| 1990s | 9,772 | #152 |
| 2000s | 56,186 | #18 |
| 2010s | 68,316 | #15 |
| 2020s | 35,872 | #18 |
Girl names about as popular as Lily
Questions
- Is Lily a boy or girl name?
- Lily is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lily were girls.
- How popular is the name Lily?
- 6,673 baby girls were named Lily in the US in 2025, making it the 18th most popular girl name.
- When was Lily most popular?
- Lily peaked in 2011, when 8,192 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #15 in 2011.
- How many people are named Lily?
- 189,789 babies have been named Lily in the US since 1880. We estimate about 176,780 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Lily most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lily was most common in Hawaii, at 12.3 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.