Lilly
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lilly 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 English, recorded as from the female personal name Lilly, a pet form of Elizabeth; also from place names or a nickname for fair hair/complexion.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 180as Leyla(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 183as Lee
- GEGeorgia1 in 246as ლეილა
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 Lilly 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)
- Sources
- 670 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 180 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800,000 named Li, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est., as Leyla
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from the female personal name Lilly, a pet form of Elizabeth; also from place names or a nickname for fair hair/complexion.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lilly is read(measured from records)
Lilly is one spelling over 4 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.
- English59%
from the female personal name Lilly, a pet form of Elizabeth; also from place names or a nickname for fair hair/complexion.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
zabeth (see Hibbs 2). 2. nickname for someone with very fair hair or skin, from
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
US pharmaceutical firm
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish9.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lilly in Spanish.
- Hindi6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lilly in Hindi.
- German5.1%
a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Lilly 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 | — | ≈3,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 368 | — | Li | 266 |
| TR Türkiye | #56 | 185,230as Leyla | 1 in 443 | 185K | Leyla | 114 |
| MY Malaysia | #19 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 183 | 2.9K | Lee | 216 |
| US United States | #31 | 164,578as Lee | 1 in 2K | 696K | Lee | 670 |
| GB United Kingdom | #38 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 448 | 2.2K | Lee | 408 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 355 | — | Li | 187 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #2 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 180 | 2.4K | Leyla | 79 |
| HK Hong Kong | #63 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 309 | — | Li | 183 |
| 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. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Lilly is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Lilly (m.fl. former) är ursprungligen engelska smekformer till → Elisabeth. I modern engelska uppfattas Lily som växtbeteckningen lily ’lilja’. Namnet har varit populärt under de senaste årtiondena, kanske inspirerat av gestalten Lily Potter i böckerna och filmerna om Harry Potter. I den rikssvenska almanackan 6 september och i den finlands svenska 20 maj.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Swedish, a female given name, from a pet form of Elisabeth or any name with the syllable -li- such as Cecilia, Julia or Karolina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Lilly Reichb. 1885DEGerman designer (1885–1947)
- Lilly Wachowskib. 1967USPolish-American film director
- Carina Bergb. 1977SEnot in their usual nameSwedish radio & TV personality
- Bijou Phillipsb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1980)
- Lilly Singhb. 1988CACanadian YouTube personality, vlogger and comedian
- Magdalena Erikssonb. 1993SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer
- Madison Baileyb. 1999USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Lilly Krugb. 2001DEGerman film and television actress and social media celebrity
- Lilly Liefersb. 2002DEGerman actress
- Lilly Aspellb. 2007GBBritish actress and show jumper
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 107 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 54K | #846 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 118 | #846 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 32 | #138 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Lilly a male or female name?
- Lilly 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.
- What are other forms of the name Lilly?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages; Lillian, Liana and Leanna are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Lilly have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 million people named Li in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- What does the name Lilly mean, and where does it come from?
- from the female personal name Lilly, a pet form of Elizabeth; also from place names or a nickname for fair hair/complexion. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Lilly?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 185,230 people named Leyla in 2025, about 1 in 443 residents.
- How common is Lilly compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Lilly is the 2nd most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lilly?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lillyThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lilly” — the 2nd most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.