Girl · #560 in 2025

Lilian

Lilian: popularity and trends since 1880

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Lilian per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 2007. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Lilian has held steady: its share of girls born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 81% of its 2007 peak.

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.