# Lillie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lillie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 159,791 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 873 / 158,918 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,112, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 644 | 464 |
| 2012 | 622 | 496 |
| 2013 | 585 | 511 |
| 2014 | 612 | 508 |
| 2015 | 531 | 577 |
| 2016 | 495 | 608 |
| 2017 | 444 | 664 |
| 2018 | 442 | 667 |
| 2019 | 449 | 650 |
| 2020 | 388 | 720 |
| 2021 | 364 | 779 |
| 2022 | 377 | 762 |
| 2023 | 413 | 699 |
| 2024 | 418 | 683 |
| 2025 | 420 | 676 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 16 | 1,839 |
| 1943 | 9 | 2,661 |
| 1944 | 7 | 3,011 |
| 1945 | 11 | 2,200 |
| 1946 | 6 | 3,381 |
| 1947 | 6 | 3,587 |
| 1949 | 11 | 2,408 |
| 1950 | 8 | 2,925 |
| 1951 | 5 | 4,032 |
| 1956 | 7 | 3,397 |
| 1958 | 8 | 3,171 |
| 1959 | 5 | 4,327 |
| 1960 | 7 | 3,526 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,399 |
| 1969 | 5 | 4,768 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 515 | 112 |
| 2012 | 376 | 150 |
| 2013 | 330 | 155 |
| 2014 | 360 | 153 |
| 2015 | 358 | 150 |
| 2016 | 368 | 148 |
| 2017 | 381 | 140 |
| 2018 | 278 | 189 |
| 2019 | 271 | 182 |
| 2020 | 237 | 208 |
| 2021 | 264 | 197 |
| 2022 | 282 | 182 |
| 2023 | 269 | 188 |
| 2024 | 227 | 214 |
| 2025 | 205 | 227 |

## People named Lillie

- Lillie Langtry, British actress (1853-1929)
- Lillie Leatherwood, American athletics competitor (born 1964)
- Lillie Devereux Blake, American activist, reformer, writer (1833–1913)
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.