Lili
From Hebrew, it carries the name of a flower: the lily. Given only to girls and to very few of them, it sits well outside the top thousand, so most Poles have never met one.
Lili Pronunciation
Lili is pronounced LEE-lee (/ˈlili/).
What Lili means
Where Lili comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lili traces back to Hebrew, and its meaning points to a single flower: the lily. In Polish that flower is the lilia, and the connection between name and bloom stays close. The lily has an old lineage, from Latin lilium and Greek leirion, one of the plants named again and again in early gardens and scripture. Lili sits at the short, bright end of that history.
The name opens into longer shapes. Liliana and its doubled cousin Lilianna give it length and formality, while Lila offers a smoother variant. For everyday use there is Lilka, the diminutive a family reaches for. One root, several doors.
On a class register a teacher might read Lili beside a fuller Liliana two rows down, the same origin arriving in two lengths. The name is short and easy to call across a room. Whatever sense of purity the lily gathered as a symbol came to the flower later; the plain meaning of Lili stays "lily", in Polish lilia.
How many people are named Lili
1 in 31224 women in Poland is named Lili. 722 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1097 among female names.
Lili's popularity over time
32 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #432 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2006.
Where parents choose Lili
Lili is most popular in Opole, 117% above the national average (11 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+85%) and West Pomeranian (+83%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lublin, 62% and 38% below average respectively.
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Opole
+117%1 in 4,190 babies
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Lower Silesian
+85%1 in 4,910 babies
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West Pomeranian
+83%1 in 4,966 babies
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Subcarpathian
−62%1 in 24,113 babies
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Lublin
−38%1 in 14,668 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
−37%1 in 14,359 babies
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Opole+117% 11 born1 in 4,190 babies+117%
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Lower Silesian+85% 32 born1 in 4,910 babies+85%
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West Pomeranian+83% 17 born1 in 4,966 babies+83%
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Lubusz+46% 8 born1 in 6,207 babies+46%
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Pomeranian+11% 18 born1 in 8,185 babies+11%
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Greater Poland+10% 26 born1 in 8,279 babies+10%
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Lesser Poland+8% 27 born1 in 8,404 babies+8%
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Holy Cross−2% 6 born1 in 9,239 babies−2%
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Łódź−7% 13 born1 in 9,748 babies−7%
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Masovian−23% 30 born1 in 11,809 babies−23%
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Silesian−24% 19 born1 in 11,978 babies−24%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−25% 9 born1 in 12,153 babies−25%
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Podlaskie−31% 5 born1 in 13,157 babies−31%
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Warmian-Masurian−37% 5 born1 in 14,359 babies−37%
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Lublin−38% 7 born1 in 14,668 babies−38%
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Subcarpathian−62% 5 born1 in 24,113 babies−62%
Lili as a middle name
Lili is a first name for 722 women in Poland and a middle name for another 150, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 538th, between Flora (150) and Rebecca (150).
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#536 Tola152
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#537 Flora150
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#538 Lili150
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#539 Rebecca150
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#540 Oriana149