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)
The name Lily is the #433 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 176,890 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #221 (96.1% percentile) for all time with 176,745 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,441 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 145 births since 1927.
Lily has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1927 for boys).
The name Lily has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lily reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 98.5% percentile (ranked #15) with 4,228 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 4,228 births per million (ranked 98.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lily ranks #19 for girls (98.1% percentile) with 3,514 births per million, which is 83.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lily reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #831) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lily".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Lily.
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lily. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lily 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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