girls:
158.1k births since 1880
#252 (96th percentile)
boys:
873 births since 1880
#3714 (19th percentile)
overall:
158.9k births since 1880
#477 (94th percentile)
The name Lillie is the #477 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 158,940 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #252 (95.6% percentile) for all time with 158,067 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,714 (19.0% percentile) for all time with 873 births since 1880.
Lillie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Lillie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lillie reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 89.0% percentile (ranked #40) with 6,307 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 7,001 births per million (ranked 84.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lillie ranks #570 for girls (39.9% percentile) with 234 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lillie reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #508) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 98 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1969.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lillie".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Lily. View all variations of Lily.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lillie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 16 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lily" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lily..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lillie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lillie is pronounced as LIH-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L IH1 L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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