Lily

girls:

176.7k births since 1880

#221 (96th percentile)

boys:

145 births since 1927

#4441 (3rd percentile)

overall:

176.9k births since 1880

#433 (94th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lily".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
176,745
Peak Births
8,192
Peak Year
2011
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
98.5%
Current Percentile
98.1%
Peak Rank
#15
Current Rank
#19
Female statistics
Total Births
145
Peak Births
21
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1927
Peak Percentile
1.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#528
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Lily

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lily. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Lily is pronounced as LIH-lee.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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.