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Tigerlily

Gender
Girl
Say it
TY-ger-LIL-ee
Origin
English
UK rank, 2025
#2,076 for girls
US rank, 2025
#7,489 for girls

Tigerlily is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “tiger lily (flower)”. In 2025 it ranked 2,076th for girls in the UK (14 babies) and 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).

What does Tigerlily mean?

English: from the flower name tiger lily

“tiger lily (flower)”

The name of an orange, dark-spotted lily; Tiger Lily is also a character in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan.

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

Tigerlily is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the UK and 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Tigerlily in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#2,076among girls
Babies in 2025
14about 1 in 20,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 3% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were named Tigerlily, making it the 2,076th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,407th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 26 girls.

Half of all the girls named Tigerlily in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 17 girls in the UK were given Tigerlily or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,538, up from #2,076 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 2,006th in England and Wales.

2001Busiest: 26 in 20222025
Tigerlily in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202514#2,076
202416#1,881
202310#2,640
202226#1,325
202119#1,669
202011#2,407
201913#2,157
201815#2,000
20177#3,395
201611#2,510
201510#2,629
20147#3,321
201314#2,061
201210#2,666
201111#2,393
20109#2,741
20099#2,695
200810#2,454
20078#2,790
20066#3,280
20058#2,555
20046#2,957
20038#2,320
20024#3,556
20015#2,928

How popular is Tigerlily in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,489among girls
Babies in 2025
14about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 9% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Tigerlily, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2016, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.

Half of all the girls named Tigerlily in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

1998Busiest: 27 in 20162025
Tigerlily in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202514#7,489
202415#7,247
202312#8,481
20229#10,377
202113#8,019
202018#6,321
201912#8,592
201815#7,405
201717#6,804
201627#4,989
201515#7,610
201424#5,454
201312#9,031
201213#8,628
201116#7,432
201014#8,267
200911#9,971
200812#9,472
200712#9,535
200611#9,897
20058#11,828
200415#7,386
200311#9,043
200212#8,274
20018#11,013
200010#9,156
19990–
19989#9,254

Nicknames for Tigerlily

Names like Tigerlily

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

Other spellings of Tigerlily

More English names

Every English name

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