first name
LILIAN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 29,757 people named Lilian, 45.3% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 35.5% as White and 10.1% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Lilian peaked in 2007, when 786 babies got the name.
At least 20,470 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Lilian by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #820. The largest share of babies named Lilian, 41.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Lilian is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lilian has been most common in Arizona (2×), California (1.9×), and Nevada (1.8×), and least common in West Virginia (0.26×).
16,581 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lilian, most common first.
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