Meaning not yet researched.
Lily: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6,673 in 2025. Its best rank was #15 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #15 in 2011; #18 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lily in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#18 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #15.
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Lily: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6,673 girls in 2025. Peak: #15 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 8,192 (2011).
In 2025, 6,673 US girls were named Lily, making it the 18th most common girls’ name of the year, up 6 places from #24 in 2024. That is 552 more than the 6,121 girls named Lily in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #15, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 8,192. For comparison, it was #25 in 2015 and #741 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lily in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 41 babies with the name. In all, 189,789 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 68,363 babies named Lily.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 59,558 US girls were named Lily; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 6,673. In 2025 that was about 1 in 241 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lily ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #10 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 51 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Lila (76,550 babies since 1880), Lilly (66,752 babies since 1880), Lilia (14,319 babies since 1880) and Lili (3,862 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lilie, Liliya and Lilya are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Lil and Lilly.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lilie (1,473), Liliya (608), Lilya (599), Lilo (467), Lilley (436), Lilja (272), Leily (171), Leili (122), Lile (121), Lyly (115), Liley (70), Lillye (60), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Lily is listed as a nickname for Lil, Liliana, Lillah, Lilly.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 129 | #10 | #10 |
| Connecticut | 92 | #11 | #25 |
| Hawaii | 27 | #12 | #11 |
| District of Columbia | 25 | #13 | #25 |
| Washington | 175 | #13 | #24 |
| Colorado | 146 | #14 | #23 |
| Tennessee | 188 | #14 | #27 |
| South Carolina | 106 | #14 | #21 |
| South Dakota | 27 | #15 | #30 |
| New York | 426 | #16 | #26 |
| Kentucky | 113 | #16 | #22 |
| Arkansas | 64 | #16 | #26 |
| Alaska | 18 | #17 | #24 |
| Alabama | 112 | #17 | #30 |
| Virginia | 192 | #17 | #38 |
| New Jersey | 215 | #17 | #28 |
| Florida | 450 | #17 | #24 |
| Minnesota | 121 | #18 | #35 |
| North Carolina | 226 | #18 | #26 |
| Wisconsin | 115 | #18 | #28 |
| New Hampshire | 35 | #19 | #26 |
| Michigan | 181 | #19 | #34 |
| Georgia | 210 | #20 | #49 |
| Maryland | 110 | #20 | #32 |
| Kansas | 71 | #21 | #35 |
| Pennsylvania | 235 | #21 | #20 |
| Iowa | 71 | #21 | #43 |
| Illinois | 214 | #22 | #42 |
| Massachusetts | 148 | #23 | #25 |
| Louisiana | 80 | #23 | #38 |
| Montana | 24 | #23 | #14 |
| Oklahoma | 78 | #23 | #20 |
| Missouri | 120 | #24 | #26 |
| California | 748 | #25 | #35 |
| Delaware | 18 | #25 | #53 |
| Ohio | 217 | #27 | #36 |
| Wyoming | 9 | #28 | #54 |
| New Mexico | 28 | #29 | #22 |
| Texas | 591 | #31 | #47 |
| Vermont | 11 | #32 | #12 |
| North Dakota | 19 | #32 | #20 |
| Arizona | 125 | #32 | #27 |
| Nebraska | 37 | #33 | #37 |
| Maine | 21 | #33 | #17 |
| Rhode Island | 18 | #34 | #18 |
| Idaho | 36 | #40 | #25 |
| Nevada | 40 | #43 | #16 |
| Mississippi | 36 | #43 | #43 |
| Indiana | 103 | #45 | #32 |
| West Virginia | 25 | #47 | #27 |
| Oregon | 47 | #57 | #26 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6,673 | #18 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6,121 | #24 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6,176 | #20 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6,012 | #30 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5,632 | #31 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5,258 | #35 | 5 | #13,293 |
| 2019 | 5,461 | #34 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5,753 | #31 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5,862 | #33 | — | — |
| 2016 | 6,610 | #24 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6,683 | #25 | 7 | #10,205 |
| 2014 | 6,789 | #27 | 7 | #10,305 |
| 2013 | 7,004 | #27 | 5 | #13,287 |
| 2012 | 7,970 | #16 | 12 | #6,875 |
| 2011 | 8,192 | #15 | 7 | #10,325 |
| 2010 | 7,992 | #17 | 9 | #8,528 |
| 2009 | 8,101 | #18 | 8 | #9,536 |
| 2008 | 8,128 | #24 | 9 | #8,732 |
| 2007 | 7,499 | #27 | 9 | #8,645 |
| 2006 | 6,768 | #33 | 7 | #10,222 |
| 2005 | 6,090 | #39 | 17 | #4,949 |
| 2004 | 5,402 | #53 | 21 | #4,204 |
| 2003 | 4,434 | #69 | 6 | #10,355 |
| 2002 | 3,834 | #79 | — | — |
| 2001 | 3,197 | #103 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,733 | #124 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,123 | #152 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,752 | #169 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,355 | #220 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,091 | #261 | — | — |
| 1995 | 853 | #320 | — | — |
| 1994 | 648 | #391 | — | — |
| 1993 | 557 | #450 | — | — |
| 1992 | 523 | #473 | — | — |
| 1991 | 474 | #501 | — | — |
| 1990 | 396 | #584 | — | — |
| 1989 | 417 | #545 | 6 | #7,533 |
| 1988 | 400 | #546 | — | — |
| 1987 | 309 | #623 | — | — |
| 1986 | 292 | #634 | — | — |
| 1985 | 243 | #711 | — | — |
| 1984 | 223 | #733 | — | — |
| 1983 | 206 | #778 | — | — |
| 1982 | 208 | #784 | — | — |
| 1981 | 223 | #742 | — | — |
| 1980 | 187 | #836 | — | — |
| 1979 | 150 | #965 | — | — |
| 1978 | 111 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1977 | 107 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1976 | 133 | #960 | — | — |
| 1975 | 122 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1974 | 107 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1973 | 102 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1972 | 139 | #902 | — | — |
| 1971 | 124 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1970 | 125 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1969 | 116 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1968 | 99 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1967 | 96 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1966 | 112 | #963 | — | — |
| 1965 | 94 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1964 | 133 | #906 | — | — |
| 1963 | 123 | #955 | — | — |
| 1962 | 120 | #976 | — | — |
| 1961 | 128 | #956 | — | — |
| 1960 | 127 | #948 | — | — |
| 1959 | 127 | #931 | — | — |
| 1958 | 149 | #835 | — | — |
| 1957 | 149 | #833 | — | — |
| 1956 | 159 | #784 | — | — |
| 1955 | 165 | #740 | — | — |
| 1954 | 144 | #781 | — | — |
| 1953 | 130 | #806 | — | — |
| 1952 | 133 | #778 | — | — |
| 1951 | 135 | #758 | — | — |
| 1950 | 135 | #741 | — | — |
| 1949 | 131 | #749 | — | — |
| 1948 | 139 | #713 | — | — |
| 1947 | 138 | #729 | — | — |
| 1946 | 122 | #737 | — | — |
| 1945 | 142 | #606 | — | — |
| 1944 | 154 | #593 | — | — |
| 1943 | 160 | #596 | — | — |
| 1942 | 173 | #562 | — | — |
| 1941 | 166 | #547 | — | — |
| 1940 | 186 | #509 | — | — |
| 1939 | 168 | #518 | — | — |
| 1938 | 195 | #475 | — | — |
| 1937 | 178 | #492 | — | — |
| 1936 | 202 | #449 | — | — |
| 1935 | 210 | #447 | — | — |
| 1934 | 216 | #442 | 5 | #3,983 |
| 1933 | 242 | #412 | — | — |
| 1932 | 245 | #420 | — | — |
| 1931 | 268 | #399 | — | — |
| 1930 | 305 | #389 | — | — |
| 1929 | 302 | #387 | — | — |
| 1928 | 345 | #370 | — | — |
| 1927 | 366 | #355 | 5 | #4,536 |
| 1926 | 344 | #362 | — | — |
| 1925 | 362 | #360 | — | — |
| 1924 | 409 | #332 | — | — |
| 1923 | 418 | #317 | — | — |
| 1922 | 418 | #317 | — | — |
| 1921 | 407 | #326 | — | — |
| 1920 | 386 | #331 | — | — |
| 1919 | 368 | #332 | — | — |
| 1918 | 388 | #326 | — | — |
| 1917 | 330 | #347 | — | — |
| 1916 | 373 | #312 | — | — |
| 1915 | 343 | #321 | — | — |
| 1914 | 252 | #331 | — | — |
| 1913 | 212 | #330 | — | — |
| 1912 | 245 | #291 | — | — |
| 1911 | 130 | #351 | — | — |
| 1910 | 154 | #310 | — | — |
| 1909 | 109 | #344 | — | — |
| 1908 | 102 | #357 | — | — |
| 1907 | 104 | #342 | — | — |
| 1906 | 82 | #378 | — | — |
| 1905 | 134 | #287 | — | — |
| 1904 | 105 | #317 | — | — |
| 1903 | 95 | #319 | — | — |
| 1902 | 99 | #316 | — | — |
| 1901 | 89 | #319 | — | — |
| 1900 | 126 | #292 | — | — |
| 1899 | 115 | #267 | — | — |
| 1898 | 92 | #326 | — | — |
| 1897 | 113 | #269 | — | — |
| 1896 | 100 | #292 | — | — |
| 1895 | 101 | #280 | — | — |
| 1894 | 108 | #265 | — | — |
| 1893 | 83 | #296 | — | — |
| 1892 | 98 | #268 | — | — |
| 1891 | 73 | #294 | — | — |
| 1890 | 96 | #255 | — | — |
| 1889 | 84 | #257 | — | — |
| 1888 | 102 | #229 | — | — |
| 1887 | 59 | #275 | — | — |
| 1886 | 75 | #239 | — | — |
| 1885 | 88 | #201 | — | — |
| 1884 | 60 | #252 | — | — |
| 1883 | 62 | #231 | — | — |
| 1882 | 63 | #215 | — | — |
| 1881 | 46 | #231 | — | — |
| 1880 | 41 | #241 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).