Lilien
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the flower name 'lily' or as a decorative house/name form
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫɪɫiən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lilien is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 273K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.6M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- 1 in 273K (inferred from the name graph)
183 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the flower name 'lily' or as a decorative house/name form
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lilien 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 | 183 | 1 in 1.8M | 251 | Lilien | 141 |
| BE Belgium | 43 | 1 in 273K | 43 | Lilien | 4 |
| PL Poland | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 28 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 12 | 1 in 3.8M | 12 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | Lilien | 5 |
183 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Lilien 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.
ornamental name from German Lilien ‘lilies’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In kw, singulative of lili (“lilies”)
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)
- Georg Lilienb. 1597DEGerman theologian
- Ephraim Moses Lilienb. 1874PLPolish illustration artist and painter (1874-1925)
- Kurt Lilienb. 1882DEactor (1882–1943)
- Ignace Lilienb. 1897NLDutch composer
- Gary Lilienb. 1946USAmerican academic
- Steven LilienUSscreenwriter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 251 | #81,311 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 222 | #79,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 183 | #98,982 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 43 | #29,017 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 11 | #61,313 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #182,450 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Lilien mean, and where does it come from?
- from the flower name 'lily' or as a decorative house/name form Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Lilien?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɪɫiən/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Lilien?
- In the etymology graph, Bess, Liss and Beti are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lilien have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 183 people named Lilien, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lilien.
- Where is Lilien most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lilien is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 273 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lilien?
- In the United States, the national register counted 183 people named Lilien in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Lilien?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lilienThe 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, “Lilien”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.