Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: DutchLily is a feminine given name usually derived from lily, the flower. The name became particularly popular along with other flower names for girls during the 1800s and early 1900s. The lily also has associations with and has been symbolic of innocence and purity in Christian art.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Lily yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Lily's rank and count peaked together in 2011 — #15 nationally and 8,192 births — one of this batch's cleaner simultaneous peaks alongside Carter's and Chloe's.
Since then it's eased to #24 with 6,093 births in 2024, down just 10% over the past decade — a notably mild decline for a name that peaked well over a decade ago, milder than Chloe's 25% drop from a similarly-timed high.
The famous-bearer list mixes music (Lily Allen), film (Lily Collins, Lily James), comedy (Lily Tomlin), and fiction (Harry Potter's Lily Potter) — a broad spread across entertainment that gives the name wide contemporary visibility even as its raw numbers have settled into a slow, gradual decline.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 41 | #241 |
| 1881 | 46 | #231 |
| 1882 | 63 | #215 |
| 1883 | 62 | #231 |
| 1884 | 60 | #252 |
| 1885 | 88 | #201 |
| 1886 | 75 | #239 |
| 1887 | 59 | #275 |
| 1888 | 102 | #229 |
| 1889 | 84 | #257 |
| 1890 | 96 | #255 |
| 1891 | 73 | #294 |
| 1892 | 98 | #268 |
| 1893 | 83 | #296 |
| 1894 | 108 | #265 |
| 1895 | 101 | #280 |
| 1896 | 100 | #292 |
| 1897 | 113 | #269 |
| 1898 | 92 | #326 |
| 1899 | 115 | #267 |
| 1900 | 126 | #292 |
| 1901 | 89 | #319 |
| 1902 | 99 | #316 |
| 1903 | 95 | #319 |
| 1904 | 105 | #317 |
| 1905 | 134 | #287 |
| 1906 | 82 | #378 |
| 1907 | 104 | #342 |
| 1908 | 102 | #357 |
| 1909 | 109 | #344 |
| 1910 | 154 | #310 |
| 1911 | 130 | #351 |
| 1912 | 245 | #291 |
| 1913 | 212 | #330 |
| 1914 | 252 | #331 |
| 1915 | 343 | #321 |
| 1916 | 373 | #312 |
| 1917 | 330 | #347 |
| 1918 | 388 | #326 |
| 1919 | 368 | #332 |
| 1920 | 386 | #331 |
| 1921 | 407 | #326 |
| 1922 | 418 | #317 |
| 1923 | 418 | #317 |
| 1924 | 409 | #332 |
| 1925 | 362 | #360 |
| 1926 | 344 | #362 |
| 1927 | 366 | #355 |
| 1928 | 345 | #370 |
| 1929 | 302 | #387 |
| 1930 | 305 | #389 |
| 1931 | 268 | #399 |
| 1932 | 245 | #420 |
| 1933 | 242 | #412 |
| 1934 | 216 | #442 |
| 1935 | 210 | #447 |
| 1936 | 202 | #449 |
| 1937 | 178 | #492 |
| 1938 | 195 | #475 |
| 1939 | 168 | #518 |
| 1940 | 186 | #509 |
| 1941 | 166 | #547 |
| 1942 | 173 | #562 |
| 1943 | 160 | #596 |
| 1944 | 154 | #593 |
| 1945 | 142 | #606 |
| 1946 | 122 | #737 |
| 1947 | 138 | #729 |
| 1948 | 139 | #713 |
| 1949 | 131 | #749 |
| 1950 | 135 | #741 |
| 1951 | 135 | #758 |
| 1952 | 133 | #778 |
| 1953 | 130 | #806 |
| 1954 | 144 | #781 |
| 1955 | 165 | #740 |
| 1956 | 159 | #785 |
| 1957 | 149 | #833 |
| 1958 | 149 | #835 |
| 1959 | 127 | #931 |
| 1960 | 127 | #948 |
| 1961 | 128 | #956 |
| 1962 | 120 | #975 |
| 1963 | 123 | #955 |
| 1964 | 133 | #906 |
| 1965 | 94 | #1,081 |
| 1966 | 112 | #963 |
| 1967 | 96 | #1,062 |
| 1968 | 99 | #1,063 |
| 1969 | 116 | #1,005 |
| 1970 | 125 | #1,002 |
| 1971 | 122 | #1,016 |
| 1972 | 139 | #902 |
| 1973 | 102 | #1,108 |
| 1974 | 107 | #1,091 |
| 1975 | 122 | #1,002 |
| 1976 | 134 | #956 |
| 1977 | 107 | #1,164 |
| 1978 | 111 | #1,151 |
| 1979 | 150 | #965 |
| 1980 | 187 | #836 |
| 1981 | 223 | #742 |
| 1982 | 208 | #784 |
| 1983 | 206 | #778 |
| 1984 | 224 | #732 |
| 1985 | 243 | #711 |
| 1986 | 292 | #634 |
| 1987 | 309 | #623 |
| 1988 | 401 | #546 |
| 1989 | 416 | #546 |
| 1990 | 396 | #584 |
| 1991 | 473 | #501 |
| 1992 | 523 | #473 |
| 1993 | 557 | #450 |
| 1994 | 648 | #391 |
| 1995 | 853 | #320 |
| 1996 | 1,091 | #261 |
| 1997 | 1,355 | #220 |
| 1998 | 1,752 | #169 |
| 1999 | 2,123 | #152 |
| 2000 | 2,733 | #124 |
| 2001 | 3,197 | #103 |
| 2002 | 3,834 | #79 |
| 2003 | 4,434 | #69 |
| 2004 | 5,402 | #53 |
| 2005 | 6,089 | #39 |
| 2006 | 6,768 | #33 |
| 2007 | 7,499 | #27 |
| 2008 | 8,127 | #24 |
| 2009 | 8,101 | #18 |
| 2010 | 7,992 | #17 |
| 2011 | 8,192 | #15 |
| 2012 | 7,969 | #16 |
| 2013 | 7,002 | #27 |
| 2014 | 6,785 | #27 |
| 2015 | 6,679 | #25 |
| 2016 | 6,608 | #24 |
| 2017 | 5,861 | #33 |
| 2018 | 5,752 | #31 |
| 2019 | 5,458 | #34 |
| 2020 | 5,251 | #36 |
| 2021 | 5,629 | #31 |
| 2022 | 6,007 | #30 |
| 2023 | 6,170 | #20 |
| 2024 | 6,093 | #24 |
