Lìlian
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lìlian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 48th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Used since the sixteenth century, possibly originally a pet form of Elizabeth, but generally accepted as a variant of Late Latin lilium (“lily”).
- PYParaguay≈1 in 404(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 420
- HNHonduras≈1 in 534
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 Lìlian 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #542 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 530 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 404 (inferred from the name graph)
182,256 named Lillian, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lilian in BR Brazil, SV El Salvador, PY Paraguay and 3 more and Lillian in US United States, KE Kenya.
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)
Used since the sixteenth century, possibly originally a pet form of Elizabeth, but generally accepted as a variant of Late Latin lilium (“lily”).
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lìlian 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #292 | 182,256as Lillian | 1 in 1.8K | 182K | Lillian | 530 |
| KE Kenya | #341 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 420 | — | Lillian | 48 |
| NG Nigeria | #561 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Lilian | 94 |
| BR Brazil | #278 | 107,581 | 1 in 2K | 109K | Lilian | 204 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Lilian | 78 |
| PY Paraguay | #80 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 404 | — | Lilian | 42 |
| HN Honduras | #48 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 534 | — | Lilian | 40 |
| SV El Salvador | #104 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 637 | — | Lilian | 40 |
| MD Moldova | — | 5,376 | 1 in 626 | 5.4K | — | 14 |
182,256 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lìlian mean, and where does it come from?
- Used since the sixteenth century, possibly originally a pet form of Elizabeth, but generally accepted as a variant of Late Latin lilium (“lily”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Lìlian a male or female name?
- Lìlian is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lìlian have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 182 thousand people named Lillian, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lìlian?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 107,581 people named Lìlian in 2022, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Lìlian compared with other names?
- In the United States, Lìlian is the 292nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%AClianThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lìlian” — the 292nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.