Lilly
A Latin name for the lily flower, long a symbol of purity. It stays rare in Poland: most people here have never met a Lilly, and the girls who carry it, always girls, number only in the hundreds.
Lilly Pronunciation
Lilly is pronounced LEEL-lih (/ˈlillɨ/).
What Lilly means
Where Lilly comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lilly grows from the Latin lilium, the Roman word for the lily. The flower came first. The name followed it. English speakers took to the spelling Lilly, doubling the l where the plant kept a single one.
The lily carried no idea of purity in Rome, where it was a common garden plant, grown for its white bloom and scent. That sense arrived later, through Christian painters who set a white lily beside the Virgin Mary. So the short meaning, lily flower and purity, joins a botanical fact to a symbol the Middle Ages added.
In a Polish class register, Lilly sits among names with older claims on the name-day calendar. It arrives without diminutives or variants, just the name and the flower under it. The name stays close to lilium, the single Latin word behind it.
How many people are named Lilly
1 in 19535 women in Poland is named Lilly. 1,156 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #900 among female names.
Lilly's popularity over time
26 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #464 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2005.
Where Lilly is most popular
Lilly is most popular in Opole, 83% above the national average (8 girls born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+50%) and Lower Silesian (+48%). It is least common in Lublin and Masovian, both 49% below average.
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Opole8 girls born+83%
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West Pomeranian12 girls born+50%
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Lower Silesian22 girls born+48%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian15 girls born+45%
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Subcarpathian16 girls born+40%
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Podlaskie8 girls born+28%
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Warmian-Masurian8 girls born+17%
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Pomeranian15 girls born+7%
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Lubusz5 girls born+6%
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Silesian22 girls born+2%
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Greater Poland20 girls born−2%
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Świętokrzyskie5 girls born−5%
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Łódź11 girls born−8%
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Lesser Poland16 girls born−26%
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Lublin5 girls born−49%
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Masovian17 girls born−49%
Lilly as a middle name
Lilly is a first name for 1,156 women in Poland and a middle name for another 188, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 494th, between Leona (188) and Ludomira (187).
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#492 Dagna188
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#493 Leona188
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#494 Lilly188
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#495 Ludomira187
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#496 Ariadna186