Lillyanne
Feminine · “lily”
Lillyanne is two names run together, both of them very old and both of them plain. The lily has stood for purity in Christian art for a thousand years, and Anne is Hebrew for grace. The compound is modern, and it belongs to a habit of joining a flower to a grandmother's name that American families have kept up for two centuries.
How old is the name Lillyanne?
Lillyanne first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Lillyanne alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 1,100 people named Lillyanne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lillyanne most popular?
Lillyanne peaked in 2010, reaching #2427 nationally. Today it ranks #4758, 2,331 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
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Where it comes from
From lilium to Lillyanne
The story of Lillyanne
Flower names entered English use in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and never entirely left, and the lily carried more weight than most because of its place in paintings of the Annunciation, where it stands beside Mary. Anne arrived far earlier, through the traditional name of Mary's own mother. Compound names joining a short flower to a short classic, Lilyanne, Lilyrose, Rosanne, Maryanne, are an American speciality, often built so a child can carry two grandmothers at once. The doubled l here follows Lilly, itself a long-standing English spelling.
Meaning
lily, joined to grace
Latin lilium, the flower, gives the first half; Hebrew Channah, grace or favor, gives the second through Anne. Both elements are transparent and neither is disputed.
How the name formed
- lilium
- Lily
- Lillyanne
Related forms: Lilianne · Lilyanne · Liliana
Pronouncing Lillyanne
LIL-ee-an
Three syllables, stress in front. Some families say LIL-ee-ANN with a second stress at the end, treating it as two names, and both are ordinary.
Nicknames for Lillyanne
High
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
- 1992
- Most girls named
- 201077 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2427reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- +33.3%28 in 2025, from 21
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.
Lillyanne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lilianne in French — related form
- Lilyanne in English — spelling variant
- Liliana in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Washington, California.
Lillyannes among us
people named Lillyanne are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was named Lillyanne
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lillyanne
- #4758
- Lillyanne on the 2025 chart
- #800
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lillyanne went to 28 girls in 2025, but Lilyanne, Lillianne and Liliane and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 160, which makes it the 800th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,958 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 10,045 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 57,402 for Lillyanne 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 Jeneane test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lillyanne's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jeneane climbed just as high around 1931, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jeneane's path sketches the road Lillyanne is walking now.
Lillyanne 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
Where Lillyanne is headed
Lillyanne is easing off slowly — about 21% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Lillyanne beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lillyanne in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries two complete names, so the child has two formal options as well as short forms.
- Both halves are transparent in English and need no explaining.
- It is long and ornamental on paper while shortening to something very plain.
- Lilyanne, Lillianne, Lilyann and Lillyanne all exist, so the spelling will be repeated often.
- Lily is currently very widely used, so the everyday form will not be distinctive.
- Compound names get broken into two fields by forms and databases, and often come back wrong.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lillyannes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Lillyanne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lillyanne?
- Lillyanne is one of 6 recorded spellings. Lilyanne is the more common one — 42 births in 2025 against 28 for Lillyanne.
- How popular is the name Lillyanne in 2025?
- Lillyanne ranks #4758 among US girl names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lillyanne?
- About 1 in every 57,402 US girls born in 2025 was named Lillyanne — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lillyanne with classmates?
- Lillyanne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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