Liliia
From the Latin for "lily", carried into Polish in the spelling Ukrainian families use. Still uncommon here, so meeting one sticks with you, but it's climbing: more girls got the name last year than in seasons past.
Liliia Pronunciation
Liliia is pronounced LEELY-yah (/ˈliljja/).
What Liliia means
Where Liliia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Liliia grows from the Latin lilium, the word for a lily. The flower handed Europe a cluster of given names, and this one keeps the bloom in plain view, since its short meaning is simply lily. The doubled ending is the standard way the Ukrainian Лілія crosses into the Latin alphabet, which is why the name reads as Ukrainian while its root stays Roman.
In daily use the name loosens. Lilia is the plainer variant, written with a single central i. Lila and lilka are the diminutives a household reaches for when the full form feels too formal for a small girl.
Picture a class register in a Polish school with a new pupil from Kharkiv. The teacher reads Liliia aloud and no one asks what it means, because the flower is already there in the sound. The root holds either way: lilium, the lily.
How many people are named Liliia
1 in 1570 women in Poland is named Liliia. 14,367 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #313 among female names.
Liliia's popularity over time
7 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #817 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2019. Still the #313 name among living women, even as it slips to #817 among newborns.
Where Liliia is most popular
Liliia is most popular in Lesser Poland, 852% above the national average (3 girls born 2019–2025).
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Lesser Poland3 girls born+852%
Liliia as a middle name
Liliia is a first name for 14,367 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3027th, between Libertad (7) and Lillia (7).
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#3025 Letosława7
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#3026 Libertad7
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#3027 Liliia7
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#3028 Lillia7
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#3029 Linnéa7