Lilly

Where Lilly comes from

The dictionaries list Lilly as a given name — a female given name, variant of Lily — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #191 among girls — 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.