Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Lillian, also spelled Lilian, Lilliann, or Lilliane, is a female given name. Its origin is the Latin word Lilium. In French, Lilian is the male form of the name, while Liliane is the female form.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Lillian yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
10,049 births in 1920 marked Lillian's high point by count — but the rank had already hit its own best, #10, twenty-two years earlier in 1898, a reverse gap similar in direction to Charlie's, if smaller. The fall since has been steep: 44% lower across the following decade, settling at 3,882 births and #54 in 2024.
Close to half a million US births carry this name since 1880, placing it among this batch's larger names by history.
Lillian Gish and Lillian Hellman anchor it in early-to-mid-20th-century film and literature; industrial engineer Lillian Moller Gilbreth adds a scientific namesake from roughly the same era.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 672 | #32 |
| 1881 | 723 | #32 |
| 1882 | 830 | #32 |
| 1883 | 907 | #26 |
| 1884 | 1,109 | #26 |
| 1885 | 1,143 | #27 |
| 1886 | 1,282 | #24 |
| 1887 | 1,308 | #26 |
| 1888 | 1,656 | #23 |
| 1889 | 1,640 | #23 |
| 1890 | 1,862 | #19 |
| 1891 | 1,812 | #20 |
| 1892 | 2,154 | #20 |
| 1893 | 2,193 | #20 |
| 1894 | 2,441 | #16 |
| 1895 | 2,495 | #16 |
| 1896 | 2,702 | #11 |
| 1897 | 2,683 | #11 |
| 1898 | 3,061 | #10 |
| 1899 | 2,703 | #10 |
| 1900 | 3,414 | #10 |
| 1901 | 2,681 | #10 |
| 1902 | 3,063 | #11 |
| 1903 | 2,972 | #13 |
| 1904 | 3,139 | #12 |
| 1905 | 3,185 | #13 |
| 1906 | 3,293 | #13 |
| 1907 | 3,542 | #13 |
| 1908 | 3,634 | #13 |
| 1909 | 3,596 | #14 |
| 1910 | 4,127 | #14 |
| 1911 | 4,367 | #13 |
| 1912 | 5,568 | #14 |
| 1913 | 6,015 | #16 |
| 1914 | 7,354 | #16 |
| 1915 | 9,546 | #15 |
| 1916 | 9,592 | #16 |
| 1917 | 9,843 | #15 |
| 1918 | 9,986 | #15 |
| 1919 | 9,516 | #17 |
| 1920 | 10,049 | #18 |
| 1921 | 9,770 | #19 |
| 1922 | 9,430 | #19 |
| 1923 | 9,327 | #20 |
| 1924 | 9,100 | #23 |
| 1925 | 8,352 | #25 |
| 1926 | 7,661 | #28 |
| 1927 | 7,182 | #32 |
| 1928 | 6,577 | #35 |
| 1929 | 5,711 | #40 |
| 1930 | 5,448 | #44 |
| 1931 | 4,807 | #47 |
| 1932 | 4,352 | #48 |
| 1933 | 3,998 | #51 |
| 1934 | 3,973 | #52 |
| 1935 | 3,423 | #66 |
| 1936 | 3,118 | #79 |
| 1937 | 2,899 | #84 |
| 1938 | 2,824 | #88 |
| 1939 | 2,551 | #99 |
| 1940 | 2,525 | #97 |
| 1941 | 2,462 | #104 |
| 1942 | 2,488 | #111 |
| 1943 | 2,392 | #116 |
| 1944 | 2,120 | #126 |
| 1945 | 2,017 | #124 |
| 1946 | 2,160 | #129 |
| 1947 | 2,090 | #143 |
| 1948 | 2,116 | #136 |
| 1949 | 1,944 | #153 |
| 1950 | 1,884 | #156 |
| 1951 | 1,826 | #167 |
| 1952 | 1,733 | #178 |
| 1953 | 1,657 | #186 |
| 1954 | 1,627 | #194 |
| 1955 | 1,658 | #195 |
| 1956 | 1,630 | #201 |
| 1957 | 1,604 | #209 |
| 1958 | 1,421 | #218 |
| 1959 | 1,468 | #218 |
| 1960 | 1,433 | #223 |
| 1961 | 1,311 | #240 |
| 1962 | 1,308 | #244 |
| 1963 | 1,164 | #258 |
| 1964 | 1,064 | #275 |
| 1965 | 1,017 | #271 |
| 1966 | 881 | #285 |
| 1967 | 843 | #298 |
| 1968 | 813 | #308 |
| 1969 | 773 | #324 |
| 1970 | 783 | #335 |
| 1971 | 675 | #361 |
| 1972 | 620 | #355 |
| 1973 | 564 | #373 |
| 1974 | 482 | #413 |
| 1975 | 455 | #436 |
| 1976 | 479 | #422 |
| 1977 | 470 | #435 |
| 1978 | 399 | #487 |
| 1979 | 436 | #464 |
| 1980 | 510 | #425 |
| 1981 | 517 | #420 |
| 1982 | 475 | #449 |
| 1983 | 453 | #456 |
| 1984 | 468 | #444 |
| 1985 | 540 | #413 |
| 1986 | 554 | #404 |
| 1987 | 531 | #420 |
| 1988 | 646 | #373 |
| 1989 | 695 | #369 |
| 1990 | 722 | #366 |
| 1991 | 770 | #342 |
| 1992 | 749 | #348 |
| 1993 | 736 | #347 |
| 1994 | 882 | #308 |
| 1995 | 942 | #294 |
| 1996 | 1,127 | #251 |
| 1997 | 1,393 | #215 |
| 1998 | 1,718 | #174 |
| 1999 | 2,190 | #147 |
| 2000 | 2,600 | #129 |
| 2001 | 2,951 | #111 |
| 2002 | 3,397 | #96 |
| 2003 | 4,030 | #76 |
| 2004 | 4,734 | #65 |
| 2005 | 5,214 | #50 |
| 2006 | 6,236 | #38 |
| 2007 | 6,552 | #33 |
| 2008 | 6,817 | #29 |
| 2009 | 6,861 | #27 |
| 2010 | 6,957 | #22 |
| 2011 | 6,932 | #22 |
| 2012 | 7,171 | #25 |
| 2013 | 7,083 | #26 |
| 2014 | 6,924 | #25 |
| 2015 | 6,625 | #26 |
| 2016 | 6,385 | #28 |
| 2017 | 6,179 | #27 |
| 2018 | 5,566 | #34 |
| 2019 | 5,126 | #37 |
| 2020 | 4,511 | #46 |
| 2021 | 4,327 | #51 |
| 2022 | 4,256 | #50 |
| 2023 | 3,937 | #55 |
| 2024 | 3,882 | #54 |
