Lillie

Where Lillie comes from

Lillie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1853
    Lillie Langtry born
    British actress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #34 among girls — 647 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #33
    678 babies named Lillie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1964
    Lillie Leatherwood born
    American athletics competitor
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #538.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lillie Langtry · British actress, 1853–1929
  • Lillie Leatherwood · American athletics competitor, born 1964
  • Lillie Devereux Blake · American activist, reformer, writer, 1833–1913
  • Lillie P. Bliss · American art collector and patron, 1864–1931
  • Lillie Hitchcock Coit · American philanthropist, 1843–1929

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.