Lillie

Where Lillie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Lillie.

  • Vowel-ended
Lillie through the years
  1. 1853
    Lillie Langtry born
    British actress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #34 among girls, with 647 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #33
    678 babies named Lillie, its best rank.
  4. 1964
    Lillie Leatherwood born
    American athletics competitor
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #538.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Lillie Langtry · British actress, 1853–1929
  • Lillie Leatherwood · American athletics competitor, born 1964
  • Lillie Devereux Blake · American activist, reformer, writer, 1833–1913
  • Lillie P. Bliss · American art collector and patron, 1864–1931
  • Lillie Hitchcock Coit · American philanthropist, 1843–1929

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.