Lillyan

Where Lillyan comes from

The dictionaries list Lillyan as a given name — a female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,951 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2009
    Peak, #1,265
    193 babies named Lillyan — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,318.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Lillyan hasn't yet.

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.