Lìlì
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lìlì is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Azerbaijan it is the 2nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From lili (“flower”). Lìlì is also written Лейла in Cyrillic, לילי in Hebrew and ไลลา in Thai.
- HUHungary1 in 468(measured from records)
- MXMexico≈1 in 8.2K
- CNChina≈1 in 97as Li
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lìlì itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #63 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 670 (measured from records)
- 1 in 468 (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000,000 named Li, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Lìlì in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew and 6 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lee in US United States, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia, Leyla in TR Türkiye, AZ Azerbaijan, Li in CN China, TW Taiwan and Leila in GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From lili (“flower”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lìlì counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈14,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 97 | — | Li | 266 |
| MY Malaysia | #19 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 170 | 2.9K | Lee | 216 |
| TR Türkiye | #56 | 185,230as Leyla | 1 in 443 | 185K | Leyla | 114 |
| US United States | #31 | 164,578as Lee | 1 in 2K | 696K | Lee | 670 |
| GB United Kingdom | #38 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 464 | 2.2K | Lee | 408 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 263 | — | Li | 187 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #2 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 116 | 2.4K | Leyla | 79 |
| HU Hungary | #259 | 20,872 | 1 in 468 | 21K | Lili | 126 |
| GE Georgia | #41 | 16,232as ლეილა | 1 in 246 | 16K | Leila | 39 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TÜİK NIP — most used given names; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lily Lib. 1950CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress (1950–2024)
- Shu Changb. 1987CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress
- Lily Gaob. 1995CNnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lìlì mean, and where does it come from?
- From lili (“flower”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Lìlì a male or female name?
- Lìlì is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Lìlì?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 million people named Li in China, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Malaysia, Türkiye, United States and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lìlì most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lìlì is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 468 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lìlì?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 20,872 people named Lìlì in 2025, about 1 in 468 residents.
- How common is Lìlì compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Lìlì is the 2nd most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lìlì” — the 2nd most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.