Lilli
#3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 174 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,383since 1912
Lilli over time
Rank among girls' names. Lilli 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 | #3,903 | 37 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 |
| 2022 | #3,893 | 38 |
| 2021 | #3,250 | 49 |
| 2020 | #3,179 | 49 |
| 2019 | #3,130 | 51 |
| 2018 | #2,962 | 55 |
| 2017 | #2,432 | 74 |
| 2016 | #2,502 | 72 |
| 2015 | #2,501 | 72 |
| 2014 | #2,351 | 78 |
| 2013 | #1,814 | 112 |
| 2012 | #1,674 | 127 |
| 2011 | #1,455 | 155 |
| 2010 | #1,566 | 141 |
| 2009 | #1,521 | 149 |
| 2008 | #1,395 | 170 |
| 2007 | #1,544 | 148 |
| 2006 | #1,335 | 174 |
| 2005 | #1,565 | 130 |
| 2004 | #1,498 | 134 |
| 2003 | #1,463 | 134 |
| 2002 | #1,720 | 106 |
| 2001 | #2,075 | 80 |
| 2000 | #2,103 | 77 |
| 1999 | #2,675 | 52 |
| 1998 | #2,846 | 46 |
| 1997 | #3,716 | 30 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 |
| 1994 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 1993 | #4,998 | 19 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 |
| 1962 | #2,113 | 31 |
| 1961 | #2,474 | 24 |
| 1960 | #2,246 | 27 |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 |
| 1958 | #2,117 | 28 |
| 1957 | #2,651 | 19 |
| 1956 | #2,005 | 29 |
| 1955 | #2,108 | 26 |
| 1954 | #1,560 | 42 |
| 1953 | #2,173 | 23 |
| 1952 | #2,411 | 19 |
| 1951 | #2,314 | 19 |
| 1950 | #2,535 | 16 |
| 1949 | #2,340 | 18 |
| 1948 | #2,491 | 16 |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 |
| 1946 | #2,597 | 14 |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
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| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
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| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 |
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| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lilli! It came in at #2,979, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1921, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lilli is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#488 · 1 in 2,089
- Missouri#587 · 1 in 2,991
- Colorado#781 · 1 in 3,734
- Indiana#788 · 1 in 4,291
- Tennessee#1,053 · 1 in 5,974
Best ever in a state: #327 in West Virginia, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #488 | 6 | 1 in 2,089 |
| Missouri | #587 | 9 | 1 in 2,991 |
| Colorado | #781 | 6 | 1 in 3,734 |
| Indiana | #788 | 7 | 1 in 4,291 |
| Tennessee | #1,053 | 5 | 1 in 5,974 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,225 | 6 | 1 in 8,792 |
| North Carolina | #1,362 | 5 | 1 in 8,791 |
| Florida | #1,404 | 8 | 1 in 9,953 |
| Texas | #2,520 | 7 | 1 in 22,616 |
| California | #3,104 | 6 | 1 in 34,847 |
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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 Lilli
- 60 spots since 2024 (#3,963 → #3,903)
- 724 spots since 2020 (#3,179 → #3,903)
- 1,402 spots since 2015 (#2,501 → #3,903)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2006 at #1,335 (174 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,926 girls born in 2006 were named Lilli (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,440 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.5% of all girls named Lilli (1,302) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #2,979 (1912) | #2,979 |
| 1920s | 6 | #4,445 (1922) | #4,445 |
| 1930s | 23 | #3,406 (1933) | #4,028 |
| 1940s | 70 | #2,340 (1949) | #3,170 |
| 1950s | 231 | #1,560 (1954) | #2,391 |
| 1960s | 172 | #2,113 (1962) | #3,418 |
| 1970s | 60 | #5,413 (1970) | #6,895 |
| 1980s | 99 | #4,964 (1986) | #7,070 |
| 1990s | 237 | #2,675 (1999) | #5,105 |
| 2000s | 1,302 | #1,335 (2006) | #1,622 |
| 2010s | 937 | #1,455 (2011) | #2,239 |
| 2020s | 241 | #3,179 (2020) | #3,774 |
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.
Lilli in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 13,867 of them was named Lilli, which outranked 91.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,663Sapphire128
- #1,663Skylynn128
- #1,663Tallulah128
- #1,674Lilli127
- #1,674Adison127
- #1,674Gentry127
- #1,674Gisele127
- #1,680Claira126
- #1,680Dior126
- #1,680Melisa126
Tied with 5 names at #1,674; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.