Lillá

surname · Latin script

Lillá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Lille (see there for more), from Old French l'Isle (“the Island”), ultimately from Latin īnsula (“island”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 200K(measured from records)
  • HUHungary1 in 437
  • PLPoland1 in 8.1K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Hungary (measured from records)

22,371 people, 2025

Sources
212 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 437 (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lilla in HU Hungary, US United States, SE Sweden and 1 more.

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)

Derivation of Lillá: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Lillá
  1. FrenchLillesee there for more(measured from records)
  2. Old Frenchl'Isle“the Island”(measured from records)
  3. Latinīnsula“island”(measured from records)

Borrowed from French Lille (see there for more), from Old French l'Isle (“the Island”), ultimately from Latin īnsula (“island”).

Sources 3

Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lillá 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.

Where Lillá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary22,3711 in 43722KLilla7
PL Poland4,7151 in 8.1K4.7K—1
US United States1,6661 in 200K1.7KLilla212
SE Sweden1321 in 77K132Lilla14
DK Denmark821 in 72K82Lilla25
FI Finland811 in 69K176—2
IS Iceland81 in 44K8—6

22,371 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lillá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lillá mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from French Lille (see there for more), from Old French l'Isle (“the Island”), ultimately from Latin īnsula (“island”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
In which country does Lillá have the most bearers?
In Hungary, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Lillá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lilla.
Where is Lillá most common?
Lillá is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 437 people carrying it.
How common is the name Lillá?
In Hungary, the national register counted 22,371 people named Lillá in 2025, about 1 in 437 residents.

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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, “Lillá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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