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 parents choose Lilly
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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Opole
+83%1 in 5,762 babies
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West Pomeranian
+50%1 in 7,035 babies
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Lower Silesian
+48%1 in 7,142 babies
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Lublin
−49%1 in 20,535 babies
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Masovian
−49%1 in 20,839 babies
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Lesser Poland
−26%1 in 14,182 babies
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Opole+83% 8 born1 in 5,762 babies+83%
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West Pomeranian+50% 12 born1 in 7,035 babies+50%
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Lower Silesian+48% 22 born1 in 7,142 babies+48%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+45% 15 born1 in 7,292 babies+45%
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Subcarpathian+40% 16 born1 in 7,535 babies+40%
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Podlaskie+28% 8 born1 in 8,223 babies+28%
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Warmian-Masurian+17% 8 born1 in 8,974 babies+17%
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Pomeranian+7% 15 born1 in 9,821 babies+7%
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Lubusz+6% 5 born1 in 9,931 babies+6%
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Silesian+2% 22 born1 in 10,345 babies+2%
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Greater Poland−2% 20 born1 in 10,762 babies−2%
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Holy Cross−5% 5 born1 in 11,087 babies−5%
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Łódź−8% 11 born1 in 11,520 babies−8%
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Lesser Poland−26% 16 born1 in 14,182 babies−26%
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Lublin−49% 5 born1 in 20,535 babies−49%
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Masovian−49% 17 born1 in 20,839 babies−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