girls:
79 births since 1916
#5637 (1st percentile)
boys:
31 births since 1916
#4555 (1st percentile)
overall:
110 births since 1916
#7629 (1st percentile)
The name Lile is the #7,629 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 110 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,637 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 79 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #4,555 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1916.
Lile first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 . Birth data for Lile is available in 17 out of the 107 years between 1916 and 2022 (14 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lile has been given predominantly to girls, with 71.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Lile were girls. Interestingly, until around 1930, the name was more popular for boys (52.0% boys from 1916 to 1929), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (91.7% girls from 1930 to 2022).
For girls, Lile reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #571) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Lile reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #499) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1938.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lile".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lile. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.7% confident that Lile is pronounced as lail, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is leel, at 16.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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