Lilija
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: SSA, 2021
/ˈlʲilʲɪjə/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from лилия
Lilija is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name.
- LVLatvia1 in 581(measured from records)
- MDMoldova1 in 155as Lilia
- UAUkraine≈1 in 350as Лілія
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 Lilija 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #336 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- 1 in 581 (inferred from the name graph)
≈380,000 named Лилия, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Liliya in US United States, LV Latvia, Лилия in RU Russia, Лілія in UA Ukraine and Lilya in BR Brazil.
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)Viendīgļlapju klases dzimta ("Liliaceae"), kurā ietilpst daudzgadīgi lakstaugi, retāk krūmi un koki, kam raksturīgas veselas lapas ar paralēlu vai lokveida dzīslojumu, kārtni divdzimumu ziedi, ~3500 sugu, Latvijā konstatēts 13 ģinšu, 25 sugas
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lilija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #74 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 383 | register #48 | Лилия | 185 |
| US United States | — | 155,678as Lily | 1 in 2.1K | 155K | Liliya | 234 |
| UA Ukraine | #66 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 351 | listed | Лілія | 74 |
| BR Brazil | — | 21,804as Lilia | 1 in 9.7K | 25K | Lilya | 28 |
| MD Moldova | #148 | 21,752as Lilia | 1 in 155 | 22K | Lilia | 20 |
| HU Hungary | — | 20,872as Lili | 1 in 468 | 21K | — | 2 |
| LV Latvia | #736 | 3,238 | 1 in 581 | 3.2K | Liliya | 15 |
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; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lilija 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.
In Latvian, šīs dzimtas ģints ("Lilium"), daudzgadīgs sīpolaugs ar smaržīgiem zvanveida ziediem, ~100 sugas; Latvijā savvaļā konstatēta 1 suga - martagonlilija jeb Daugavas lilija, kultivē ~2000 šķirņu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Parastā kreimene ("Convallaria majalis")
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In wym, lily
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)- Lilija Žvīguleb. 1902LVLatvian actor (1902-1993)
- Lilija Dzeneb. 1929LVLatvian historian
- Lilija Mulevičiūtėb. 1939LTSoviet and Lithuanian actress
- Liliya Osadchab. 1952UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian Soviet volleyball player
- Lilija Dinereb. 1955LVLatvian painter (born 1955)
- Lilija Maravigliab. 1969BGBulgarian actress
- Lilia Ludanb. 1969UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian luger
- Lilia Vaygina-Efremovab. 1977RUnot in their usual nameUkrainian biathlete
- Lilia Podkopayevab. 1978UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian artistic gymnast, coach, and dancer (born 1978)
- Liliya Kulykb. 1987UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian triple 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 3.2K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 3.2K | #173 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 181 | #40,593 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 7 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #40,593 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 1 | #8,058 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 are other forms of the name Lilija?
- In the etymology graph, Liliana, Lillian and Lilia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lilija?
- In Russian /ˈlʲilʲɪjə/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Lilija a male or female name?
- Lilija is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB), Estonia (Statistics Estonia) and Poland (dane.gov.pl).
- In which country does Lilija have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 375 thousand people named Лилия in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lilija most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lilija is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 581 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lilija?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 3,238 people named Lilija, about 1 in 581 residents.
- How common is Lilija compared with other names?
- In Russia, Lilija is the 74th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lilija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lilijaThe 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, “Lilija” — the 74th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.