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How popular is “Lilly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lilly” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lilly” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Lilly” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Lilly” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Lilly” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Lilly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lilly” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 64 0.000317643 64 100%
1881 55 0.000285436 55 100%
1882 70 0.00031598 70 100%
1883 62 0.000285785 62 100%
1884 63 0.000258768 63 100%
1885 80 0.000332151 80 100%
1886 85 0.000332921 85 100%
1887 83 0.0003355 83 100%
1888 124 0.000414059 124 100%
1889 95 0.000328781 95 100%
1890 104 0.000345055 104 100%
1891 98 0.000341853 98 100%
1892 109 0.000325982 109 100%
1893 114 0.000350529 114 100%
1894 127 0.000374974 127 100%
1895 108 0.000307675 108 100%
1896 121 0.000338477 121 100%
1897 86 0.000247869 86 100%
1898 133 0.000348665 133 100%
1899 107 0.000315416 107 100%
1900 154 0.000342026 154 100%
1901 105 0.000303633 105 100%
1902 126 0.000325806 126 100%
1903 123 0.000322665 123 100%
1904 133 0.000329628 133 100%
1905 130 0.00030666 130 100%
1906 137 0.000319757 137 100%
1907 144 0.000309418 144 100%
1908 137 0.000280365 137 100%
1909 125 0.000244511 125 100%
1910 129 0.000218381 129 100%
1911 154 0.000239027 154 100%
1912 168 0.00017003 168 100%
1913 179 0.000157417 179 100%
1914 229 0.000161684 229 100%
1915 279 0.000152257 279 100%
1916 316 0.000163357 316 100%
1917 298 0.000148499 298 100%
1918 319 0.000146929 319 100%
1919 298 0.000141216 298 100%
1920 309 0.000136566 309 100%
1921 339 0.000145213 339 100%
1922 304 0.0001328 304 100%
1923 316 0.000137243 316 100%
1924 301 0.000126385 301 100%
1925 282 0.000120859 282 100%
1926 306 0.000133281 306 100%
1927 283 0.000122017 283 100%
1928 271 0.000119862 271 100%
1929 253 0.000115411 253 100%
1930 243 0.000109298 243 100%
1931 199 0.000094564 199 100%
1932 224 0.000106096 224 100%
1933 209 0.000104529 209 100%
1934 217 0.000104487 217 100%
1935 156 0.000074645 156 100%
1936 198 0.000095303 198 100%
1937 187 0.000087766 187 100%
1938 225 0.000101692 225 100%
1939 176 0.000079875 176 100%
1940 167 0.000072524 167 100%
1941 197 0.000080856 197 100%
1942 194 0.000071015 194 100%
1943 153 0.000054206 153 100%
1944 163 0.000060593 163 100%
1945 140 0.000052772 140 100%
1946 149 0.000046631 149 100%
1947 152 0.000042195 152 100%
1948 152 0.000044026 152 100%
1949 129 0.000037018 129 100%
1950 138 0.000039391 138 100%
1951 170 0.000046149 170 100%
1952 135 0.000035545 135 100%
1953 127 0.000032956 127 100%
1954 133 0.000033411 133 100%
1955 138 0.00003437 138 100%
1956 163 0.000039534 163 100%
1957 148 0.00003522 148 100%
1958 120 0.000029028 120 100%
1959 144 0.000034632 144 100%
1960 137 0.000032982 137 100%
1961 157 0.000037902 157 100%
1962 143 0.000035437 143 100%
1963 117 0.000029559 117 100%
1964 108 0.000027781 108 100%
1965 120 0.000033099 120 100%
1966 104 0.000029922 104 100%
1967 79 0.00002327 79 100%
1968 93 0.000027528 93 100%
1969 75 0.000021581 75 100%
1970 75 0.000020796 75 100%
1971 76 0.000022142 76 100%
1972 60 0.00001909 60 100%
1973 68 0.00002254 68 100%
1974 65 0.000021382 65 100%
1975 60 0.000019872 60 100%
1976 42 0.000013842 42 100%
1977 61 0.000019204 61 100%
1978 65 0.00002048 65 100%
1979 60 0.000018034 60 100%
1980 59 0.000017129 59 100%
1981 70 0.000020235 70 100%
1982 75 0.00002138 75 100%
1983 51 0.000014726 51 100%
1984 47 0.000013472 47 100%
1985 73 0.000020453 73 100%
1986 74 0.000020804 74 100%
1987 62 0.000017195 62 100%
1988 99 0.000026793 99 100%
1989 103 0.000026792 103 100%
1990 108 0.000027325 108 100%
1991 102 0.000026186 102 100%
1992 122 0.00003176 122 100%
1993 127 0.000033685 127 100%
1994 135 0.000036313 135 100%
1995 208 0.000056797 208 100%
1996 234 0.000064159 234 100%
1997 332 0.000091567 332 100%
1998 414 0.000112555 414 100%
1999 488 0.000132111 488 100%
2000 659 0.000174343 659 100%
2001 782 0.000208902 782 100%
2002 911 0.000243694 911 100%
2003 1188 0.000312441 1188 100%
2004 1625 0.00042529 1616 9 99%
2005 1912 0.000497289 1907 5 99%
2006 2279 0.000576059 2279 100%
2007 2407 0.000602099 2402 5 100%
2008 2699 0.000686652 2694 5 100%
2009 2832 0.000741327 2832 100%
2010 2890 0.000781982 2890 100%
2011 2872 0.000785173 2872 100%
2012 2790 0.000762844 2790 100%
2013 2619 0.000718387 2619 100%
2014 2581 0.000696368 2581 100%
2015 2323 0.000627683 2323 100%
2016 2167 0.000590673 2167 100%
2017 1931 0.000539959 1931 100%
2018 1785 0.000507694 1785 100%
2019 1550 0.000446566 1550 100%
2020 1288 0.000385562 1288 100%
2021 1353 0.000399357 1353 100%
2022 1310 0.000387215 1310 100%
2023 1200 0.000362407 1200 100%
2024 1217 0.00036563 1217 100%

Explore other names

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  5. Lilliyn
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  10. Lillyan
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