Lilly

Where Lilly comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Lilly.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Lilly through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #191 among girls, with 64 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Lilly Reich born
    German designer
  3. 1988
    Lilly Singh born
    Canadian YouTube personality, vlogger and comedian
  4. 2011
    Peak, #103
    2,873 babies named Lilly, its best rank.
  5. 2011
    The comeback
    Back to #103 after sinking to #2,111 in 1984.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Lily.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Lillian and Lilian, from Latin.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Elizabeth and Elisabeth, from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Lilly Singh · Canadian YouTube personality, vlogger and comedian, born 1988
  • Lilly Reich · German designer, 1885–1947
  • Lilly Platt · British environmentalist, born 2008
  • Lilly Scholz · figure skater, 1903–1994
  • Lilly Steinschneider · Austro-Hungarian aviator, 1891–1975

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.