Lily

Where Lily comes from

A 19th-century flower name, from lily. Also a diminutive of Lilian and sometimes Elizabeth.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lily
  • English
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #240 among girls — 41 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1985
    Lily Allen born
    British singer and actress
  3. 1989
    Lily Collins born
    British-American actress
  4. 2011
    Peak, #15
    8,192 babies named Lily — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The comeback
    Back to #15 after sinking to #1,160 in 1977.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English, popular around 1900 and currently returning to favor.
Namesakes
  • Lily Allen · British singer and actress, born 1985
  • Lily Collins · British-American actress, born 1989
  • Lily Tomlin · American actress, born 1939
  • Lily James · British actress, born 1989
  • Lily Rabe · American actress, born 1982

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.