Lili

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lili is a given name 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. In Hungarian, recorded as a female given name, equivalent to English Lilly.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 468(measured from records)
  • AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 180as Leyla
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 183as Lee

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 Lili 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)

≈3,800,000 named Li, est.

#63 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

9 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
670 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 468 (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LeeLatin(measured from records)
ЛейлаCyrillic(measured from records)
ליליHebrew(measured from records)
ไลลาThai(measured from records)
ԼիլիArmenian(measured from records)
ლეილაGeorgian(measured from records)
리리Hangul(measured from records)
ΙιGreek(measured from records)
ለኢላEthiopic(measured from records)

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lee in US United States, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia, Li in CN China, HK Hong Kong, TW Taiwan, Leyla in TR Türkiye, AZ Azerbaijan 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)

Short form of names from Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Lili is read(measured from records)

Lili is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Hungarian32%

    a female given name, equivalent to English Lilly

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish28%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Lili in Spanish.

  • English14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Lili in English.

  • French12%

    Short form of names from Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • Hindi11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Lili in Hindi.

  • Indonesian7.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Lili in Indonesian.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lili 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 Lili is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈3,800,000 est.≈1 in 368—Li266
TR Türkiye#56185,230as Leyla1 in 443185KLeyla114
MY Malaysia#19≈180,000 est.≈1 in 1832.9KLee216
US United States#31164,578as Lee1 in 2K696KLee670
GB United Kingdom#38≈150,000 est.≈1 in 4482.2KLee408
TW Taiwan—≈67,000 est.≈1 in 355—Li187
AZ Azerbaijan#2≈57,000 est.≈1 in 1802.4KLeyla79
HK Hong Kong#63≈23,000 est.≈1 in 309—Li183
HU Hungary#25920,8721 in 46821KLili126
GE Georgia#4116,232as ლეილა1 in 24616KLeila39

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lili is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Li-Li, Lîlî

  • Hindi given name28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Bangladesh, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Lilly, Lily, লিলি, Lillie, Lilley

  • Indonesian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Li-Li, 'Lili, Lili'

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Li-Li, Lìlǐ, Lilī, Lilí, Lil̲i

  • Romanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Romania, Spain, United States

    Also written Lîlî

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, India, United States, China

    Also written Li-Li

  • Albanian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, India

    Also written Lílï, Lîlï, Lilí

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lilí

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lili is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Pet form of exisaBeTu. Also: Lilli.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • German: pet form, originally a reduplicated nursery form, of ELISABETH . This form is associated in particular with the Second World War popular song Lili Marlene . Variant: Lilli .

    as a word

  • In Hawaiian, jealous; highly sensitive to criticism; jealousy; anger and mental anguish felt if one’s loved ones are criticized

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Tongan, to boil (of the sea). to be turbulent, violently rough; to be very angry, to boil with rage, to be furious

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Lili Elbe, b. 1882Lili Boulanger, b. 1893Lili Darvas, b. 1902Lili Kraus, b. 1903Liliana Segre, b. 1930Liliana Cavani, b. 1933Lili Taylor, b. 1967Lili Simmons, b. 1993Liliana Mumy, b. 1994Lili Reinhart, b. 1996
  • Lili Elbeb. 1882DKDanish painter and transgender woman (1882–1931)
  • Lili Boulangerb. 1893FRFrench composer (1893–1918)
  • Lili Darvasb. 1902HUHungarian actress (1902–1974)
  • Lili Krausb. 1903HUHungarian born English classical pianist (1903–1986)
  • Liliana Segreb. 1930ITnot in their usual nameItalian Holocaust survivor and senator for life
  • Liliana Cavanib. 1933ITnot in their usual nameItalian film director and screenwriter
  • Lili Taylorb. 1967USAmerican actress
  • Lili Simmonsb. 1993USAmerican actress and model
  • Liliana Mumyb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Lili Reinhartb. 1996USAmerican actress (born 1996)

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)

Attested in 100 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Lili
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202521K#64
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.8K#2,657
HU Hungarymagyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F)2025483#9
HU Hungarymagyarnevek — given names by decade1997445#27
HU HungaryKSH — births by given name2024426—
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024)2024426#13
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202091#2,657
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202561—

Reference works 6

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Lili a male or female name?
Lili 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.
Where does the name Lili come from?
Short form of names from Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
What are other forms of the name Lili?
In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Julie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Élisabeth.
In which country does Lili have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 million people named Li in China, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Lili most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lili is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 468 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Lili mean?
In Hungarian, a female given name, equivalent to English Lilly
How common is the name Lili?
In Hungary, the national register counted 20,872 people named Lili in 2025, about 1 in 468 residents.
How common is Lili compared with other names?
In Azerbaijan, Lili 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, “Lili” — the 2nd most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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