Lilla
A Latin name tied to the lily. It's stayed rare in Poland, given only to a handful of girls each year now, and that trickle keeps thinning.
Lilla Pronunciation
Lilla is pronounced LEEL-lah (/ˈlilla/).
What Lilla means
Where Lilla comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lilla comes from the Latin lilium, the word for lily. The flower gave the name its meaning, and that meaning has held since. In Polish it reads as lilia, the lily or the lilac in bloom, a plant people know from gardens and from June churches.
The road from lilium to Lilla is short. Latin trimmed the long ending and doubled the l, and a Polish reader can sound the result out at first sight. Two syllables. Nothing in it asks to be explained.
Picture a class register in September. Lilla sits among the Katarzynas and the Magdalenas, brief where they run long, an entry a teacher reads without pausing. The name keeps no elaborate history and needs none. Its origin stays in plain view: lilium, the lily, standing behind every spelling of Lilla.
When Lilla celebrates name day
Lilla appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 30 April.
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 Lilla
1 in 4779 women in Poland is named Lilla. 4,717 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #500 among female names.
Lilla's popularity over time
17 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #555 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2003. Still the #500 name among living women, even as it slips to #555 among newborns.
Where Lilla is most popular
Lilla is most popular in Łódź, 96% above the national average (18 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+76%) and Warmian-Masurian (+53%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Podlaskie, 75% and 58% below average respectively.
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Łódź18 girls born+96%
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Lesser Poland29 girls born+76%
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Warmian-Masurian8 girls born+53%
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Lower Silesian13 girls born+14%
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Świętokrzyskie4 girls born−1%
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West Pomeranian6 girls born−2%
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Silesian16 girls born−3%
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Greater Poland15 girls born−4%
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Masovian24 girls born−7%
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Pomeranian10 girls born−7%
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Subcarpathian6 girls born−32%
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Lublin4 girls born−46%
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Podlaskie2 girls born−58%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian2 girls born−75%
Lilla as a middle name
Lilla is a first name for 4,717 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,257, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 233rd, between Lilia (1,310) and Bianka (1,230).
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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
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#235 Nela1,177