Meaning not yet researched.
Lilyan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #595 in 1915.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #595 in 1915; #4,132 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lilyan in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,132 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1915, at #595.
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Lilyan: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #595 in 1915 · most girls in one year: 194 (2007).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Lilyan, making it the 4,132nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 121 places from #4,011 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 37 girls named Lilyan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #595, reached in 1915. The most girls given the name in a single year was 194, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,157 in 2015 and #5,040 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lilyan in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 6 babies. In all, 4,339 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,232 babies named Lilyan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 522 US girls were named Lilyan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lilian (20,470 babies since 1880), Lillian (476,457 babies since 1880), Lilyann (3,377 babies since 1880) and Lillyann (2,487 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leilynn, Leilyn and Lelyn are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Leilynn (89), Leilyn (80), Lelyn (22), Lelynn (14).
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.
No nicknames listed for Lilyan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,011 | — | — |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,880 | — | — |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,650 | — | — |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,256 | — | — |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,229 | — | — |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 2015 | 88 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 2013 | 142 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 2012 | 147 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 2011 | 167 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 2009 | 185 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 2008 | 193 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 2007 | 194 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 2006 | 147 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 2005 | 127 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 2004 | 123 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 2003 | 101 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,779 | — | — |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,159 | — | — |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,490 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,553 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,262 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,844 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,754 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,777 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,660 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,421 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,253 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,611 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,990 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,366 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,974 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,528 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,021 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,462 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,088 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,937 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,187 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,673 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,248 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,040 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,083 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,578 | — | — |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,262 | — | — |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,787 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,028 | — | — |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,216 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,740 | — | — |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1921 | 58 | #980 | — | — |
| 1920 | 71 | #862 | — | — |
| 1919 | 77 | #802 | — | — |
| 1918 | 124 | #641 | — | — |
| 1917 | 121 | #622 | — | — |
| 1916 | 123 | #610 | — | — |
| 1915 | 120 | #595 | — | — |
| 1914 | 84 | #630 | — | — |
| 1913 | 63 | #657 | — | — |
| 1912 | 60 | #643 | — | — |
| 1911 | 43 | #662 | — | — |
| 1910 | 34 | #733 | — | — |
| 1909 | 26 | #806 | — | — |
| 1908 | 17 | #991 | — | — |
| 1907 | 28 | #720 | — | — |
| 1906 | 24 | #753 | — | — |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1900 | 17 | #931 | — | — |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,513 | — | — |
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).