Lilia
From the Latin word for the lily flower. Once barely used, it's in the middle of a comeback: it now sits just outside Poland's 500 most-given girls' names, though meeting one still feels uncommon.
Lilia Pronunciation
Lilia is pronounced LEEL-yah (/ˈlilja/).
What Lilia means
Where Lilia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lilia comes from Latin, from lilium, the word for the lily. The flower gave the name its meaning, and that meaning has stayed plain: lily, and little else. The word crossed languages easily.
English lily and French lis both descend from the same lilium, which makes Lilia a relative of flower names across the continent. Latin took the word itself, likely from Greek leirion, the same bloom under an older name. Polish keeps its own cluster of forms. Friends reach for lila, a small child answers to lilka, and the fuller variant liliya travels east under Cyrillic spelling.
On a class register the name sits short, four letters trailing a longer surname. It asks little of the teacher who reads it. Whatever the spelling, the sense underneath holds to one flower, the lily.
When Lilia celebrates name day
Lilia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 11 August.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Lilia
1 in 3485 women in Poland is named Lilia. 6,471 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #437 among female names.
Lilia's popularity over time
243 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #163 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where Lilia is most popular
Lilia is most popular in West Pomeranian, 42% above the national average (100 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+40%) and Pomeranian (+29%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Opole, 23% and 22% below average respectively.
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West Pomeranian100 girls born+42%
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Lubusz58 girls born+40%
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Pomeranian159 girls born+29%
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Masovian320 girls born+8%
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Warmian-Masurian64 girls born+7%
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Świętokrzyskie49 girls born+6%
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Lower Silesian133 girls born+1%
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Łódź107 girls born+1%
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Silesian185 girls born−3%
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Podlaskie51 girls born−7%
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Greater Poland161 girls born−10%
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Lesser Poland169 girls born−11%
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Lublin68 girls born−21%
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Subcarpathian80 girls born−21%
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Opole30 girls born−22%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian70 girls born−23%
Lilia as a middle name
Lilia is a first name for 6,471 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,310, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 232nd, between Krzysztofa (1,317) and Lilla (1,257).
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#230 Teofila1,334
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#231 Krzysztofa1,317
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#232 Lilia1,310
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#233 Lilla1,257
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#234 Bianka1,230