Lilija
Just 122 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. The name comes from Latin, after the lily.
Lilija Pronunciation
Lilija is pronounced lee-LEE-yah (/liˈlija/).
What Lilija means
Where Lilija comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lilija comes from Latin, from lilium, the word for the lily. The flower carried the name before any person did, and the sense stayed close to the bloom: lily, plain and botanical. Polish speakers hear lilia in it, the same flower in their own garden.
The short forms soften it. Lila and lilka turn the three syllables into something a child answers to. Liliana stretches it back out, a fuller variant that shares the same Latin root.
The lily itself did a lot of work in European art before the name spread. It stood for whiteness in church paintings and appeared in coats of arms across the continent. A girl called Lilija inherits that association without having to explain it.
On a class register in Poland, Lilija sits near the Liliannas and Lidias, close but not the same. The diminutive lila might be what the teacher actually calls her. Underneath stays lilium, the Latin word for lily.
How many people are named Lilija
1 in 184786 women in Poland is named Lilija. 122 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3044 among female names.
Lilija as a middle name
Lilija is a first name for 122 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4209th, between Lilibeth (4) and Lillianna (4).
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#4207 Libera4
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#4208 Lilibeth4
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#4209 Lilija4
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#4210 Lillianna4
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#4211 Lillie4