girls:
4.3k births since 1895
#2630 (54th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1895
#4196 (46th percentile)
The name Lilyan is the #4,196 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,267 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 45.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,630 (54.0% percentile) for all time with 4,267 births since 1895.
Lilyan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (first recorded for girls in 1895). Birth data for Lilyan is available in 98 out of the 129 years between 1895 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Lilyan reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 20.6% percentile (ranked #455) with 113 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 117 births per million (ranked 20.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lilyan ranks #913 for girls (3.6% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 19.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lilyan".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lilyan", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 25 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lillian" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lillian..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lilyan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Lilyan is pronounced as LIH-lee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LIHL-yuhn, at 9.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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