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Lillyan

Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#7,883 for girls

Lillyan is a girls' name of Latin origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).

What does Lillyan mean?

Latin

A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Lillyan is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lillyan in the US?

Rank in 2025
7,883rd among girls
Babies in 2025
13 about 1 in 120,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling fast down 60% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Lillyan, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,261st. Its busiest year was 2009, with 193 girls. It first appears in the records in 1906.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 8 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Lillyan than any year since 1997.

Half of all the girls named Lillyan in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 182 girls in the US were given Lillyan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,121, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.

1906Busiest: 193 in 20092025
Lillyan in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202513#7,883
202414#7,590
202322#5,544
202224#5,306
202125#5,087
202032#4,261
201937#3,922
201852#3,106
201764#2,689
201664#2,697
201580#2,318
2014110#1,838
2013127#1,666
2012166#1,392
2011160#1,418
2010172#1,357
2009193#1,265
2008142#1,597
2007144#1,570
2006132#1,615
2005107#1,818
200489#2,042
200373#2,298
200248#3,010
200129#4,205
200033#3,803
199920#5,213
199817#5,794
199710#8,329
19965#13,511
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19906#11,403
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19590–
19580–
19570–
19560–
19550–
19540–
19530–
19520–
19510–
19500–
19490–
19480–
19470–
19460–
19450–
19440–
19430–
19420–
19410–
19400–
19390–
19386#3,845
19370–
19365#4,179
19350–
19340–
19335#4,216
19320–
19310–
19300–
19295#4,568
19286#4,193
19275#4,803
19269#3,268
19257#4,027
19247#4,000
192318#2,091
19227#4,009
192114#2,509
192011#2,899
191918#1,989
191818#2,028
191711#2,692
191610#2,832
191516#1,963
191411#2,125
191310#2,033
19126#2,632
19110–
19100–
19090–
19086#1,862
19070–
19065#1,951

Names like Lillyan

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

Other spellings of Lillyan

Names related to Lillyan

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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, “Lillyan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lillyan, updated 20 October 2026.