Lilia

What Lilia means

Means “lily”

Borrowed from Latin lilia, plural of lilium (“lily”), or a Latinization of the English Lily.

Source: Wiktionary, “Lilia” (revision 93041431), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Lilia?

US: Rising: up from #955 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #377 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 315 girls got the name (#859 that year). First in the US records in 1884.

How common

• About 1 in 5,102 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,980 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,236 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (2.8 per 1,000 girls), UT (0.41 per 1,000 girls), VA (0.41 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Lilia is #859 in the US and #468 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Lilia were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lillie420 US · 205 E&W
• Lillia55 US · 32 E&W
• Lelia17 US
• Laelia15 US
• Lalia12 US · 3 E&W
• Lulia7 US · 5 E&W
• Liliah12 US
• Lilie12 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Lilia

Girls

• Azaria#638Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1988, with 6 babies
• Lilian#560possibly “lily”^*
• Lilianna#890Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1980, with 6 babies
• Lillian#57possibly “lily”^*
• Lilliana#445Editor’s note Down from #270 in 2015 to #445 in 2025 in the US
• Livia#819Editor’s note Down from #724 in 2015 to #819 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Lucian#462Editor’s note Up from #633 in 2015 to #462 in 2025 in the US
• Blaze#781Editor’s note Down from #707 in 2015 to #781 in 2025 in the US
• Magnus#763“great”^*
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Lukas#288“a man from Lucania”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Lilia’s. Rank is US 2025.