Liliann
Feminine · “Lily" joined to Hebrew "grace”
Lily and Susan are the same flower. Hebrew shoshan, behind Susanna, and Latin lilium both name a lily, and both were borrowed from an older Mediterranean language nobody now speaks — so two of Europe's common women's names are one plant twice.
How old is the name Liliann?
Liliann first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Liliann alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 600 people named Liliann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Liliann most popular?
Liliann peaked in 2013, reaching #4336 nationally. Today it ranks #7885, 3,549 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
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Where it comes from
From lilium to Liliann
The story of Liliann
Plant names travel with plants and frequently arrive from languages that leave no other trace. Latin lilium, Greek leirion, Hebrew shoshan and Egyptian sšn all name lilies or lotuses and all resist Indo-European or Semitic derivation — the usual conclusion is a shared borrowing from an older population of the eastern Mediterranean. The same is suspected of wine, olive and cypress. What that means for naming is that Susanna and Lilian, arriving in English by completely separate routes and looking unrelated, both descend from a word neither Hebrew nor Latin actually owned. Liliann peaks in America in 2013.
Meaning
"Lily" joined to Hebrew "grace"
Lilian is generally taken as a diminutive of Lily, itself from Latin lilium, or as a variant of Elizabeth. Latin lilium and Greek leirion have no Indo-European etymology and are held to be loans from a lost Mediterranean language, as is Hebrew shoshan, the lily behind Susanna. Ann is from Hebrew Hannah, grace. Liliann is an American compound.
How the name formed
- lilium
- Lily
- Lilian
- Liliann
Related forms: Lillian · Liliane · Shoshana
Pronouncing Liliann
LIL-ee-an
Three syllables, stress on the first. Lillian with a doubled l is said identically; the doubled consonant changes nothing audible in English.
Nicknames for Liliann
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1983
- Most girls named
- 201333 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4336reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%13 in 2025, from 13
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Liliann in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lillian in English — spelling variant
- Liliane in French — same name
- Shoshana in Hebrew — related form
Lilianns among us
people named Liliann are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 123,636 born in 2025 was named Liliann
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Liliann
- #7885
- Liliann on the 2025 chart
- #50
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Liliann went to 13 girls in 2025, but Lillian, Lilian and Lilyann and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 10 spellings went to 4,748, which makes it the 50th most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,835 places above the chart.
and 3 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 339 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 123,636 for Liliann itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Inna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Liliann's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Inna climbed just as high around 1931, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Inna's path sketches the road Liliann is walking now.
Liliann sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Liliann beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Liliann in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lily and Ann are immediate short forms that stand alone.
- The flower association is settled and universally understood.
- It is read correctly on sight by English speakers.
- Lillian is the standard spelling and will be substituted.
- The doubled n at the end adds a letter and no sound.
- It is easily confused with Lilianna and Lillianne.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lilianns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Liliann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Liliann?
- Liliann is one of 7 recorded spellings. Lillian is the more common one — 3,966 births in 2025 against 13 for Liliann.
- How popular is the name Liliann in 2025?
- Liliann ranks #7885 among US girl names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Liliann?
- About 1 in every 123,636 US girls born in 2025 was named Liliann — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Liliann with classmates?
- Liliann will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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