Lili
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births
- Peak · girls
- 1954 · 56 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,862since 1912
Lili over time
Rank among girls' names. Lili has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,778 | 61 |
| 2024 | #2,976 | 55 |
| 2023 | #2,494 | 71 |
| 2022 | #2,604 | 67 |
| 2021 | #3,002 | 55 |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 |
| 2019 | #3,272 | 48 |
| 2018 | #3,004 | 54 |
| 2017 | #2,779 | 61 |
| 2016 | #2,761 | 62 |
| 2015 | #2,927 | 59 |
| 2014 | #2,517 | 71 |
| 2013 | #2,279 | 81 |
| 2012 | #2,115 | 90 |
| 2011 | #2,000 | 98 |
| 2010 | #2,093 | 94 |
| 2009 | #2,190 | 90 |
| 2008 | #1,816 | 119 |
| 2007 | #2,015 | 101 |
| 2006 | #1,798 | 115 |
| 2005 | #1,631 | 123 |
| 2004 | #1,726 | 112 |
| 2003 | #1,422 | 139 |
| 2002 | #1,468 | 130 |
| 2001 | #1,941 | 89 |
| 2000 | #2,055 | 80 |
| 1999 | #1,667 | 99 |
| 1998 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 |
| 1996 | #2,229 | 60 |
| 1995 | #2,845 | 42 |
| 1994 | #3,302 | 34 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 |
| 1992 | #2,974 | 39 |
| 1991 | #3,207 | 34 |
| 1990 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 1989 | #2,371 | 49 |
| 1988 | #2,867 | 36 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 |
| 1983 | #4,286 | 17 |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 |
| 1979 | #3,236 | 25 |
| 1978 | #3,388 | 22 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #2,969 | 24 |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 |
| 1970 | #2,395 | 31 |
| 1969 | #2,704 | 24 |
| 1968 | #2,789 | 21 |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 |
| 1966 | #2,752 | 20 |
| 1965 | #2,204 | 29 |
| 1964 | #2,752 | 21 |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 |
| 1962 | #1,989 | 34 |
| 1961 | #2,197 | 29 |
| 1960 | #1,580 | 50 |
| 1959 | #1,794 | 38 |
| 1958 | #2,073 | 29 |
| 1957 | #1,641 | 43 |
| 1956 | #1,437 | 54 |
| 1955 | #1,516 | 45 |
| 1954 | #1,333 | 56 |
| 1953 | #1,872 | 29 |
| 1952 | #1,978 | 26 |
| 1951 | #2,474 | 17 |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 |
| 1948 | #2,329 | 18 |
| 1947 | #2,530 | 16 |
| 1946 | #2,880 | 12 |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 |
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| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
| 1940 | #2,737 | 10 |
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| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 |
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| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 |
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| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 |
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| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 |
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| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 |
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| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 |
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| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 |
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| 1912 | #2,634 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lili! It came in at #2,634, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1917, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lili is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#943 · 1 in 5,358
- New York#1,146 · 1 in 7,348
- California#1,547 · 1 in 12,741
- Texas#1,876 · 1 in 15,247
Best ever in a state: #529 in Minnesota, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #943 | 6 | 1 in 5,358 |
| New York | #1,146 | 13 | 1 in 7,348 |
| California | #1,547 | 18 | 1 in 12,741 |
| Texas | #1,876 | 11 | 1 in 15,247 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lili
- 198 spots since 2024 (#2,976 → #2,778)
- 237 spots since 2020 (#3,015 → #2,778)
- 149 spots since 2015 (#2,927 → #2,778)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1954 at #1,333 (56 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,145 girls born in 2003 were named Lili (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,349 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,333 in 1954, was only 1 in 34,677 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.4% of all girls named Lili (1,098) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 22 | #2,634 (1912) | #3,740 |
| 1920s | 17 | #4,376 (1923) | #4,548 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,331 (1931) | #4,331 |
| 1940s | 97 | #2,329 (1948) | #3,144 |
| 1950s | 348 | #1,333 (1954) | #1,935 |
| 1960s | 263 | #1,580 (1960) | #2,508 |
| 1970s | 201 | #2,395 (1970) | #3,527 |
| 1980s | 240 | #2,371 (1989) | #3,807 |
| 1990s | 491 | #1,667 (1999) | #2,902 |
| 2000s | 1,098 | #1,422 (2003) | #1,806 |
| 2010s | 718 | #2,000 (2011) | #2,575 |
| 2020s | 362 | #2,494 (2023) | #2,812 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lili in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 15,890 of them was named Lili, which outranked 91.1% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,808Mindy120
- #1,808Sonja120
- #1,808Tammy120
- #1,816Lili119
- #1,816Addysen119
- #1,816Chyanne119
- #1,816Lisette119
- #1,824Alonna118
- #1,824Ashlin118
- #1,824Asiah118
Tied with 7 names at #1,816; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.