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Lillien

Gender
Girl
Say it
LIL-ee-an
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Lillien is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “lily”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Lillien mean?

Latin: spelling of Lillian, itself a spelling of Lilian

“lily”

A spelling of Lilian; the silent-film star Lillian Gish was a famous bearer.

Meaning borrowed from Lillian. More on Wiktionary.

Is Lillien a girl's or a boy's name?

Lillien is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lillien in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Lillien, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1918.

Half of all the girls named Lillien in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 4,662 girls in the US were given Lillien or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #57, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.

1918Busiest: 20 in 20072025
Lillien in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20246#13,472
20230–
20227#12,237
20216#13,459
20206#13,448
201914#7,712
201812#8,612
201714#7,836
201614#7,985
201512#8,926
201417#6,985
201318#6,725
201213#8,628
201120#6,332
201018#6,901
200918#7,063
200817#7,404
200720#6,548
200616#7,480
200510#10,123
200412#8,711
200311#9,043
20028#11,102
20017#12,049
20005#15,024
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19295#4,568
19285#4,723
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19188#3,511

Nicknames for Lillien

Names like Lillien

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Lillien

Names related to Lillien

More Latin names

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Lillien: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lillien, updated 20 October 2026.