Liliya
Carries the Latin word for lily, in the Russian and Ukrainian spelling. Barely a thousand women in Poland go by it and most people here have never met one, though a few girls still get the name each year.
Liliya Pronunciation
Liliya is pronounced leel-YIH-ah (/lilˈjɨa/).
What Liliya means
Where Liliya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Liliya grows from the Latin lilium, the word for lily, a flower Roman gardeners prized. From there it travelled into Slavic speech and settled most firmly among Russian and Ukrainian families. A girl called Liliya is Lila to her closest people and Lilka when the tone turns fond. The variant Lilia stands right beside her.
The flower carried its own history into the name. White lilies filled Christian painting, marking the Annunciation and lining the feet of saints, so the bloom reached the name already full of association. The sense of purity and grace attached itself later. The first meaning stayed simple. It means lily, in Polish lilia.
Read the name in a Polish class register and it asks for no footnote. Liliya, Lilia, Lila, Lilka: one Latin root for a lily, worn four ways.
How many people are named Liliya
1 in 22189 women in Poland is named Liliya. 1,016 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #957 among female names.
Liliya's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1279 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023. Still the #957 name among living women, even as it slips to #1279 among newborns.