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Lily (name)

Lily is a feminine given name usually derived from lily, the flower. The name became particularly popular along with other flower names for girls during the 1800s and early 1900s. The lily also has associations with and has been symbolic of innocence and purity in Christian art. Names beginning with or containing the letter L have also been particularly fashionable for girls. It is also occasionally used as a diminutive for other names such as Elizabeth.

The popularity of the name increased steadily in most countries in western Europe and English-speaking countries during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

The name is often used in combination with other names, sometimes spelled with a hyphen and sometimes without. Well-used combination names in use in countries such as Canada and the United States include those influenced by Lillian or Liliana or considered a combination of Lily and the names Anna, Ann, or Anne, such as Liliann, Lilianna, Lili-Ann, Lili-Anne, Lillianna, Lillianne, Lillyana, Lillyann, Lilly-Ann, Lillyanna, Lillyanne, Lilly-Anne, Lilyana, Lilyanna, Lily-Anne and Lily-Ann.

Other popular combination names in use include Lily-Rose, a combination of Lily and the name Rose, which is particularly well used in Quebec, Canada, where it was the 65th most popular name for newborn girls in 2022 and ranked among the top 300 names overall for girls in Canada in 2021, placing 297th on the popularity chart with 105 uses for Canadian girls that year, and its spelling variants Lili-Rose, which had nine uses in Canada in 2021, and Lilirose, Lilly-Rose, and Lilyrose. The name Lilyrose or Lily-Rose is also well used in England and Wales, where it has ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls since 2001 and among the top 500 names since 2006, and in France, where it has ranked among the top 500 names for French girls since 2004. It ranked among the top 200 names for newborn girls in Belgium in 2021. The name has also seen increased use in the United States, though it has not ranked among the top 1,000 names for American girls. Thirty-five American girls were given the name Lilyrose in 2022 and eleven American girls were called Lillyrose that year.

Other related or associated names include, among others, Lilia, Lilibet, Lilibeth, Lilika, Lilith, Lilja, Lilou, and Tigerlily.

People

Lily Abegg (1901–1974), Swiss journalist
Lily Addison (1885–1982), Australian tennis player
Lily Afshar (1960–2023) Iranian-American classical guitarist
Lily Ah Toy (1917–2001), Australian pioneer and businesswoman
Lily Aldridge (born 1985), American fashion model
Lily Allen (born 1985), English singer, songwriter, actress and author
Lily-Rose Aslandogdu (born 2003), English actress
Lily Atkinson (1866–1921), New Zealand temperance campaigner, suffragist, and feminist
Lily Auchincloss (1922–1996), American journalist, philanthropist, and art collector
Lily Beaurepaire (1892–1979), Australian swimmer and diver
Lily Berglund (1928–2010), Swedish singer
Lily Blatherwick (1854–1934), English painter
Lily Bloom, French actress
Lily Bouwmeester (1901–1993), Dutch theater and film actress
Lily Braun (1865–1916), German feminist writer
Lily Brayton (1876–1953), English actress
Lily Brett (born 1946), Australian novelist
Lily Brown (born 1981), American poet
Lily Burana, American writer
Lily Butters (1895–1980), Canadian philanthropist
Lily Cahill (1888–1955), American actress
Lily Carlstedt (1926–2005), Danish javelin thrower
Lily Castel (born 1937), Belgian singer
Lily Chakravarty (born 1941), Indian film actress
Lily Chan (born 1983), Chinese singer
Lily Chitty (1893–1979), British archaeologist and independent scholar
Lily Chung (born 1964), Hong Kong based actress
Lily Cole (born 1988), English fashion model
Lily Collins (born 1989), English-American actress and model
Lily D'Ambrosio (born 1964), Australian politician
Lily Dampier (died 1915), Australian actor of stage and screen
Lily-Rose Depp (born 1999), French-American actress and model
Lily Dick (born 1999), Australian women's national rugby sevens team player
Lily Donaldson (born 1987), British fashion model
Lily Dougall (1858–1923), Canadian author and feminist
Lily E. Kay (1947–2000), Polish-American science historian
Lily Eberwein (1900–1980), Sarawakian nationalist and women's right activist
Lily Elise (born 1991), American singer-songwriter
Lily Elsie (1886–1962), English actress and singer
Lily Eskelsen García (born 1955), American teacher and trade union leader
Lily Fabiola de la Rosa (born 1970), Mexican politician
Lily Fayol (1914–1999), French singer
Lily Franky (born 1963), Japanese illustrator, writer, and actor
Lily Frost (contemporary), Canadian singer
Lily Furedi (1896–1969), Hungarian-American artist
Lily Garafulic (1914–2012), Chilean sculptor, Generation of 40 (Generación del 40) artists member, and museum director
Lily Gladstone (born 1986), American actress
Lily Goddard (1916–2002), Austrian author and designer
Lily Gower (1877–1959), Welsh croquet player
Lily Ann Granderson (1816–after 1870), American historical educator
Lily Haass (1886–1964), American YWCA worker in Shanghai, China
Lily Halpern (born 1991), American performer and singer
Lily Hanbury (1873–1908), English stage performer
Lily Hevesh, American YouTuber and domino artist
Lily Hoshino, Japanese manga artist
Lily Ho (actress) (born 1946), Chinese actress
Lily Ho Ngo Yee (born 1988), Hong Kong actress
Lily Hoy Price (born 1930), Canadian writer
Lily Inglis (1926–2010), Canadian architect
Lily Irene Jackson (1848–1928), American artist and arts organizer
Lily Isabel Maude Addison (1885–1968), Australian architect
Lily James (born 1989), English actress
Lily Jan (born 1947), Jack and DeLoris Lange Professor of Molecular Physiology at UC San Francisco
Lily Ki (born 1991), American internet personality, voice actress, musician, and animator known as LilyPichu
Lily Kann (1893–1978), German-born British actress
Lily Kelly Napangardi (born c.1948), Australian Aboriginal artist
Lily Kempson (1897–1996), Irish trade union activist
Lily Kim (born 1980), Korean-American journalist
Lily King (born 1963), American novelist
Lily Koppel (born 1981), American writer
Lily Koros Tare, Kenyan medical administrator
Lily Kronberger (1890–1974), Hungarian figure skater
Lily Kwok (1918–2007), Chinese-born restaurateur
Lily Laight (born 2001), British child actress
Lily Laita (born 1969), artist and art educator in New Zealand
Lily Laskine (1893–1988), French harpist
Lily Leung (1929–2019), actress in Hong Kong
Lily Li (born 1950), Hong Kong actress
Lily Lind (1882–1916), nurse from New Zealand who served in France in World War I
Lily Lodge (1930–2021), American actress, acting coach, and etiquette consultant
Lily Loveless (born 1990), English actress
Lily Luik (born 1985), Estonian long-distance runner
Lily Lyoonjung Lee (born 1969), Korean-American competitive figure skater
Lily Marinho (1921–2011), Brazilian television arts patron, philanthropist, and socialite
Lily Mariye (born 1964), American actress
Lily McNicholas (1909–1998), Irish nurse in the Second World War
Lily Monteverde (born 1938), Filipino film producer
Lily Neo (born 1953), Singaporean medical practitioner and politician
Lily Oddie (1937–2021), Canadian provincial politician
Lily Osman Adams (1865–1945), Canadian painter
Lily Owsley (born 1994), English international field hockey player
Lily Parr (1905–1978), English footballer
Lily Pastré (1891–1974), French heiress and patron of the arts
Lily Peters (died 2022), American female murder victim
Lily Pons (1898–1976), French-American actress
Lily Postlethwaite (born 2001), Australian rules footballer
Lily Poulett-Harris (1873–1897), Australian sportswoman and educationalist
Lily Pringsheim (1887–1954), German politician
Lily Rabe (born 1982), American actress
Lily Rani Biswas (born 1989), Bangladeshi women's cricketer
Lily Renée (1921–2022), Austrian-American artist
Lily Ross Taylor (1886–1969), American academic and author
Lily Safra (1934–2022), Brazilian philanthropist
Lily Saxby, British stage and film actress
Lily Serna (born 1986), Australian mathematician and television presenter
Lily Sobhani (born 1976), English live events producer
Lily Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1854–1909), American heiress and socialite
Lily Sullivan, Australian actress
Lily Tembo (1981–2009), Zambian musician, radio presenter, journalist, and charity worker
Lily Thomas (1927–2019), Indian lawyer
Lily Tien (born 1967), Taiwanese actress
Lily Tobias (1887–1984), British writer and activist
Lily Tomlin (born 1939), American actress
Lily Tuck (born 1938), American novelist
Lily van den Broecke (born 1992), British rower
Lily Venson (1924–2011), American journalist
Lily Wangchuk (born 1972), Bhutanese politician, diplomat, and activist
Lily Weiding (1924–2021), Danish actress
Lily C. Whitaker (1850–1932), American educator, writer
Lily Yam (born 1947), Hong Kong civil servant and government official
Lily Yeats (1866–1949), Irish embroiderer
Lily Yeh (born 1941), Chinese American artist
Lily Yip (born 1963), Chinese-born American table tennis player and coach
Lily Young, professor of environmental microbiology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick
Lily Yulianti Farid (born 1971), Indonesian writer and journalist
Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey (born 1932), American water color artist and author
Lily Zhang (born 1996), American table tennis player

Fictional characters

Lily, in the cartoon Kappa Mikey
Lily, an advertising character for AT&T portrayed by Milana Vayntrub
Lily, a Kanto Gym Leader and Misty's sister in Pokémon
Lily, a Vocaloid mascot based on Yuri Masuda, Japanese vocalist of the musical group m.o.v.e
Lily, a Longwing Dragon flown by Captain Harcourt and leader of Temeraire's formation in the Temeraire book series by Naomi Novik.
Lily, a.k.a. Yayoi Kise, co-protagonist of Glitter Force
Lily Aldrin, in the American television series How I Met Your Mother
Lily Bart, heroine of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
Lily Bloom, in the romance “It Ends with Us”
Lily Brown, in the film Nanny McPhee
Lily Butterfield in the British soap opera Emmerdale (2006–2008)
Lily Chen, in the Welsh children's program Fireman Sam
Lily Cruz, in the Philippine soap opera Wildflower (2017-2018), portrayed by Maja Salvador
Lily Drinkwell, in the British soap opera Hollyoaks (2017–2019)
Lily Duncan, from Canadian-French-Chinese children's animated television series Mona the Vampire
Lily Frankenstein, played by Billie Piper in the British-American TV series Penny Dreadful
Lily Hartman, protagonist of the "Cogheart series"
Lily Hollister, supervillain of comic book series Menace
Lily Hoshikawa, a trans character from the MAPPA idol anime series Zombie Land Saga
Lily Iglehart, a main character from the Netflix series Sex Education; portrayed by Tanya Reynolds
Lily Keeble played by Nora Dunn in the film Max Keeble's Big Move
Lily Loud, one of the main characters in The Loud House
Lily Marlene, 'the girl under the lantern' in а popular WWII song
Lily Munster played by Yvonne De Carlo in American TV series The Munsters (1964–1966)
Lily Owens, main character in the novel and film The Secret Life of Bees
Lilith 'Lily' Page, Maleficent’s estranged daughter from the Netflix fantasy/adventure series Once Upon a Time
Lily Potter (née Evans), Harry's mother in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
Lily Luna Potter, Harry's daughter in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
Lily Pritchett-Tucker in the American TV series Modern Family (debut 2010)
Lily the Rainforest Fairy, in the British book series Rainbow Magic
Lily Randall, one of the main characters in the Canadian TV series Radio Free Roscoe; portrayed by Kate Todd
Lily Ritter, in the video game State Of Decay
Lily Rowan, a recurring character in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series
Lily Savage, a drag queen personality as portrayed by comedian Paul O'Grady
Lily C. Sherbet, in Japanese anime/manga/sim (debut 2006)
Lily Stone, Burnett's granddaughter in the film Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Lily Strosek, in Magical Chronicle Lyrical Nanoha Force
Lily Marvin-Wiley, a character in the 1991 American black comedy film What About Bob?
Lily White, a mid boss in the Touhou Project video game
Lily Winters, in the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
Lily van der Woodsen, in American TV series Gossip Girl