Girl
Lilly
As a girl's name, Lilly is understood to mean "pure, innocent flower". It has been climbing steadily, peaking most recently in the 2010s. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
EtymologyVariant of Lily
EtymologyMeaning "pure, innocent flower"
Births by decade
1900s
1,314
1910s
2,370
1920s
2,963
1930s
2,035
1940s
1,596
1950s
1,416
1960s
1,132
1970s
631
1980s
712
1990s
2,266
2000s
17,275
2010s
20,062
Peaked in the 2010s · 53,772 total U.S. births since 1900