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How popular is “Lily” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lily” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lily” 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 “Lily” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lily” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lily” 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 41 0.00020349 41 100%
1881 46 0.000238728 46 100%
1882 63 0.000284382 63 100%
1883 62 0.000285785 62 100%
1884 60 0.000246446 60 100%
1885 88 0.000365367 88 100%
1886 75 0.000293754 75 100%
1887 59 0.000238488 59 100%
1888 102 0.000340597 102 100%
1889 84 0.000290712 84 100%
1890 96 0.000318513 96 100%
1891 73 0.000254646 73 100%
1892 98 0.000293085 98 100%
1893 83 0.00025521 83 100%
1894 108 0.000318876 108 100%
1895 101 0.000287733 101 100%
1896 100 0.000279733 100 100%
1897 113 0.000325689 113 100%
1898 92 0.000241182 92 100%
1899 115 0.000338999 115 100%
1900 126 0.00027984 126 100%
1901 89 0.000257365 89 100%
1902 99 0.000255991 99 100%
1903 95 0.000249213 95 100%
1904 105 0.000260233 105 100%
1905 134 0.000316096 134 100%
1906 82 0.000191387 82 100%
1907 104 0.000223468 104 100%
1908 102 0.000208739 102 100%
1909 109 0.000213214 109 100%
1910 154 0.000260703 154 100%
1911 130 0.000201776 130 100%
1912 245 0.00024796 245 100%
1913 212 0.000186438 212 100%
1914 252 0.000177923 252 100%
1915 343 0.000187184 343 100%
1916 373 0.000192823 373 100%
1917 330 0.000164445 330 100%
1918 388 0.00017871 388 100%
1919 368 0.000174387 368 100%
1920 386 0.000170597 386 100%
1921 407 0.000174341 407 100%
1922 418 0.0001826 418 100%
1923 418 0.000181543 418 100%
1924 409 0.000171733 409 100%
1925 362 0.000155145 362 100%
1926 344 0.000149832 344 100%
1927 371 0.000159958 366 5 97%
1928 345 0.000152592 345 100%
1929 302 0.000137764 302 100%
1930 305 0.000137184 305 100%
1931 268 0.000127353 268 100%
1932 245 0.000116043 245 100%
1933 242 0.000121033 242 100%
1934 221 0.000106413 216 5 95%
1935 210 0.000100483 210 100%
1936 202 0.000097229 202 100%
1937 178 0.000083542 178 100%
1938 195 0.000088133 195 100%
1939 168 0.000076244 168 100%
1940 186 0.000080775 186 100%
1941 166 0.000068133 166 100%
1942 173 0.000063328 173 100%
1943 160 0.000056686 160 100%
1944 154 0.000057247 154 100%
1945 142 0.000053526 142 100%
1946 122 0.000038181 122 100%
1947 138 0.000038309 138 100%
1948 139 0.00004026 139 100%
1949 131 0.000037592 131 100%
1950 135 0.000038534 135 100%
1951 135 0.000036648 135 100%
1952 133 0.000035018 133 100%
1953 130 0.000033734 130 100%
1954 144 0.000036174 144 100%
1955 165 0.000041095 165 100%
1956 159 0.000038564 159 100%
1957 149 0.000035458 149 100%
1958 149 0.000036043 149 100%
1959 127 0.000030544 127 100%
1960 127 0.000030574 127 100%
1961 128 0.000030901 128 100%
1962 120 0.000029737 120 100%
1963 123 0.000031075 123 100%
1964 133 0.000034211 133 100%
1965 94 0.000025928 94 100%
1966 112 0.000032224 112 100%
1967 96 0.000028278 96 100%
1968 99 0.000029304 99 100%
1969 116 0.000033378 116 100%
1970 125 0.00003466 125 100%
1971 122 0.000035544 122 100%
1972 139 0.000044225 139 100%
1973 102 0.00003381 102 100%
1974 107 0.000035197 107 100%
1975 122 0.000040405 122 100%
1976 134 0.000044162 134 100%
1977 107 0.000033685 107 100%
1978 111 0.000034973 111 100%
1979 150 0.000045086 150 100%
1980 187 0.000054289 187 100%
1981 223 0.000064463 223 100%
1982 208 0.000059294 208 100%
1983 206 0.00005948 206 100%
1984 224 0.000064206 224 100%
1985 243 0.000068084 243 100%
1986 292 0.00008209 292 100%
1987 309 0.0000857 309 100%
1988 401 0.000108524 401 100%
1989 422 0.000109769 416 6 97%
1990 396 0.00010019 396 100%
1991 473 0.000121429 473 100%
1992 523 0.000136153 523 100%
1993 557 0.000147734 557 100%
1994 648 0.000174304 648 100%
1995 853 0.000232923 853 100%
1996 1091 0.000299134 1091 100%
1997 1355 0.000373716 1355 100%
1998 1752 0.000476319 1752 100%
1999 2123 0.000574736 2123 100%
2000 2733 0.000723034 2733 100%
2001 3197 0.000854039 3197 100%
2002 3834 0.001025602 3834 100%
2003 4440 0.001167708 4434 6 100%
2004 5423 0.001419291 5402 21 99%
2005 6106 0.0015881 6089 17 99%
2006 6775 0.001712507 6768 7 100%
2007 7508 0.001878088 7499 9 100%
2008 8136 0.002069879 8127 9 100%
2009 8109 0.002122678 8101 8 100%
2010 8001 0.002164926 7992 9 100%
2011 8199 0.002241516 8192 7 100%
2012 7981 0.002182171 7969 12 100%
2013 7007 0.001922008 7002 5 100%
2014 6792 0.001832518 6785 7 100%
2015 6686 0.001806582 6679 7 100%
2016 6608 0.001801184 6608 100%
2017 5861 0.001638893 5861 100%
2018 5752 0.001635998 5752 100%
2019 5458 0.001572488 5458 100%
2020 5256 0.001573381 5251 5 100%
2021 5629 0.001661477 5629 100%
2022 6007 0.001775572 6007 100%
2023 6170 0.001863375 6170 100%
2024 6093 0.001830554 6093 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Lily:

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  2. Liloa
  3. Lilou
  4. Lilton
  5. Lilu
  6. Lily (this page)
  7. Lilya
  8. Lilyah
  9. Lilyahna
  10. Lilyan
  11. Lilyana