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Lylia

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

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

What does Lylia mean?

Latin: variant of Lilia, from lilium

“lily”

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

Lylia 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 Lylia in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 5 girls.

2008Busiest: 5 in 20092022
Lylia in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20225#4,168
20215#4,148
20200–
20191#7,346
20180–
20170–
20160–
20155#4,294
20140–
20134#4,953
20120–
20110–
20100–
20095#4,141
20084#4,742

How popular is Lylia in the US?

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

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Lylia, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 1919.

Half of all the girls named Lylia in the US since 1880 were born between 1952 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 394 girls in the US were given Lylia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #709, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.

1919Busiest: 21 in 20132025
Lylia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20245#15,288
202312#8,481
202213#8,027
20216#13,459
20209#10,245
201911#9,106
201810#9,801
201713#8,295
201613#8,390
201517#6,974
201417#6,985
201321#6,014
201213#8,628
201120#6,332
20105#16,985
200916#7,676
200810#10,802
200714#8,516
200614#8,234
20058#11,828
200410#9,887
20037#12,401
20027#12,181
20019#10,095
20006#13,147
19990–
19980–
19970–
19965#13,511
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19675#6,803
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19596#5,565
19580–
19570–
19560–
19550–
19546#5,146
19530–
19527#4,482
19517#4,384
19506#4,736
19490–
19480–
19475#5,293
19467#3,993
19450–
19440–
19435#4,690
19425#4,620
19415#4,418
19400–
19390–
19386#3,845
19370–
19365#4,179
19357#3,429
19340–
19330–
19320–
19317#3,495
19300–
19299#3,135
19285#4,723
19270–
19260–
19258#3,663
19240–
19230–
19225#5,007
19210–
19206#4,396
19196#4,249

Nicknames for Lylia

Names like Lylia

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

Other spellings of Lylia

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Lylia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lylia, updated 20 October 2026.