Liliwen
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LIL-ee-wen
- Origin
- Welsh
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,344 for girls
Liliwen is a girls' name of Welsh origin, meaning “white lily”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies).
What does Liliwen mean?
Welsh: Welsh name of lili 'lily' and gwen 'white'
“white lily”
A Welsh name combining lili, 'lily', with -wen, 'white, fair, blessed'.
Is Liliwen a girl's or a boy's name?
Liliwen is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Liliwen in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,344th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 145% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Liliwen, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 12 girls.
Half of all the girls named Liliwen in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,276th in England and Wales.
Liliwen in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 2024 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
Nicknames for Liliwen
- Lili 77 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Liliwen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Eden, Ottilie, Winnie, Athena, Evelyn, Aurora, Wren, Delilah, Lottie, Luna, Aria, Elodie
Names related to Liliwen
Liliana, Lillian, Lilian, Lilianna, Liliane, Lilien, Lillie-Ann, Lilianne
More Welsh names
Dylan, Owen, Maddox, Morgan, Idris, Reese, Bowen, Griffin, Rhys, Gavin, Reece, Nia, Seren, Gwendolyn, Winifred, Meredith
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Liliwen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/liliwen, updated 20 October 2026.