Lillian Forename
2,695th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 384,951 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Lillian Forename Definition:
A female name. these names probably originated as pet-forms of Elizabeth (q.v.), cf. the German Lili for Elisabeth. Lillian is found as a christian name in England in the 16th C and Lillias at about the same time in Scotland; Lilian occurs as a surname as early as 1273 and looks like a diminutive in -on of Lily.
Read More About This ForenameLillian Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 190,949 | 1:1,899 | 377 |
| Uganda | 100% | 52,225 | 1:784 | 136 |
| Zambia | - | 22,885 | 1:693 | 148 |
| South Africa | 100% | 15,742 | 1:3,464 | 661 |
| England | 100% | 14,117 | 1:3,939 | 482 |
| Canada | 100% | 12,082 | 1:2,742 | 514 |
| Kenya | 100% | 8,454 | 1:5,478 | 850 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 8,453 | 1:1,825 | 336 |
| Norway | 100% | 8,056 | 1:637 | 169 |
| Denmark | - | 4,863 | 1:1,162 | 227 |
| Jamaica | - | 4,643 | 1:621 | 147 |
| Brazil | 100% | 4,066 | 1:52,690 | 3,675 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 3,214 | 1:55,247 | 3,888 |
| Rwanda | - | 2,659 | 1:4,277 | 808 |
| Sudan | - | 2,578 | 1:14,665 | 1,593 |
| Ghana | 100% | 2,247 | 1:12,010 | 1,092 |
| Mexico | 100% | 1,686 | 1:73,633 | 2,224 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 1,390 | 1:7,505 | 973 |
| Egypt | 85% | 1,366 | 1:67,277 | 3,504 |
| Scotland | 100% | 1,364 | 1:3,923 | 426 |
| Bahamas | - | 1,325 | 1:301 | 51 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1,322 | 1:2,686 | 300 |
| Malawi | 100% | 1,248 | 1:13,712 | 1,385 |
| Philippines | 98% | 1,209 | 1:87,684 | 5,146 |
| Australia | - | 1,193 | 1:11,448 | 1,023 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 1,122 | 1:7,266 | 759 |
| China | - | 1,108 | 1:1,232,902 | 36,914 |
| Botswana | 100% | 1,097 | 1:1,991 | 354 |
| Sweden | 100% | 868 | 1:11,357 | 960 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 801 | 1:21,101 | 1,999 |
| Ireland | 100% | 758 | 1:6,126 | 553 |
| Wales | 100% | 729 | 1:4,245 | 544 |
| New Zealand | - | 659 | 1:6,883 | 858 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 510 | 1:11,801 | 1,146 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 467 | 1:3,947 | 495 |
| Chile | 100% | 443 | 1:39,745 | 1,589 |
| Peru | 99% | 431 | 1:73,762 | 3,052 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 342 | 1:1,699 | 313 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 325 | 1:162,426 | 7,426 |
| Honduras | 100% | 309 | 1:28,535 | 1,730 |
| Fiji | - | 288 | 1:3,099 | 856 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 267 | 1:114,045 | 7,739 |
| Argentina | 100% | 251 | 1:170,411 | 2,311 |
| Liberia | 100% | 233 | 1:18,936 | 1,343 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 233 | 1:132,243 | 12,172 |
| Germany | 100% | 203 | 1:476,246 | 5,151 |
| Hong Kong | - | 190 | 1:40,804 | 2,443 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 181 | 1:861 | 263 |
| Guam | - | 175 | 1:918 | 202 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 169 | 1:95,316 | 2,159 |
| Panama | 100% | 167 | 1:23,393 | 2,181 |
| El Salvador | - | 160 | 1:39,636 | 1,442 |
| India | 100% | 153 | 1:7,940,379 | 258,898 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 149 | 1:9,137 | 1,377 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 147 | 1:32,435 | 1,759 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 143 | 1:767 | 132 |
| Singapore | 100% | 113 | 1:55,638 | 6,770 |
| France | 84% | 109 | 1:609,820 | 5,989 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 104 | 1:32,958 | 1,436 |
| Swaziland | - | 103 | 1:12,623 | 1,554 |
| Cuba | - | 101 | 1:113,926 | 2,146 |
| Portugal | - | 101 | 1:103,078 | 2,758 |
| Belize | 100% | 95 | 1:3,730 | 814 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 92 | 1:328,281 | 10,079 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 90 | 1:607 | 101 |
| Czechia | 100% | 80 | 1:133,202 | 1,308 |
| Thailand | 95% | 79 | 1:886,909 | 34,001 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 70 | 1:496 | 71 |
| Aruba | - | 63 | 1:1,647 | 343 |
| Barbados | - | 62 | 1:4,674 | 734 |
| Qatar | 91% | 61 | 1:38,846 | 5,076 |
| Kuwait | - | 57 | 1:66,408 | 5,422 |
| Ecuador | - | 52 | 1:340,902 | 4,453 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 50 | 1:164,270 | 4,176 |
| Burundi | 100% | 49 | 1:202,175 | 572 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 48 | 1:1,277 | 288 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 48 | 1:495,202 | 27,983 |
| Guyana | 100% | 47 | 1:16,240 | 2,136 |
| Malta | - | 45 | 1:9,541 | 977 |
| Israel | 99% | 43 | 1:195,417 | 6,129 |
| Namibia | - | 42 | 1:57,242 | 3,348 |
| Japan | - | 40 | 1:3,199,651 | 23,520 |
| Colombia | 100% | 37 | 1:1,291,322 | 13,152 |
| Spain | 100% | 37 | 1:1,257,567 | 9,556 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 34 | 1:1,614 | 377 |
| Greece | - | 30 | 1:364,485 | 5,634 |
| Bermuda | - | 26 | 1:2,493 | 518 |
| Grenada | 100% | 26 | 1:4,159 | 713 |
| Jersey | - | 26 | 1:3,845 | 523 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 26 | 1:78,461 | 7,234 |
| Russia | 82% | 24 | 1:6,009,738 | 27,399 |
| Indonesia | - | 23 | 1:11,215,812 | 344,499 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 21 | 1:278 | 74 |
| Finland | 100% | 20 | 1:274,159 | 4,096 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 20 | 1:361,840 | 4,257 |
| Italy | 100% | 18 | 1:3,392,338 | 19,514 |
| Belgium | 100% | 17 | 1:675,885 | 9,645 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 17 | 1:1,838 | 426 |
| Greenland | - | 17 | 1:3,316 | 507 |
| Hungary | 100% | 17 | 1:575,987 | 2,039 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 16 | 1:3,070 | 569 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 15 | 1:6,626 | 1,171 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 15 | 1:7,439 | 1,138 |
| Austria | 100% | 14 | 1:608,157 | 5,259 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 13 | 1:550,153 | 19,206 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 12 | 1:4,269 | 670 |
| Poland | 100% | 9 | 1:4,225,235 | 4,388 |
| Samoa | - | 9 | 1:21,688 | 450 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 8 | 1:4,077,940 | 25,891 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 8 | 1:2,701,313 | 52,296 |
| Lebanon | - | 7 | 1:803,939 | 7,854 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 7 | 1:332 | 62 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 7 | 1:27,765,383 | 122,080 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 7 | 1:25,402 | 2,434 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 6 | 1:885,010 | 3,389 |
| South Korea | - | 6 | 1:924,070 | 17,138 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 4 | 1:3,314 | 681 |
| Bangladesh | - | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| Chad | - | 4 | 1:3,399,600 | 8,891 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Morocco | - | 4 | 1:8,587,159 | 11,086 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| New Caledonia | - | 4 | 1:67,541 | 2,087 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Brunei | - | 3 | 1:139,857 | 2,352 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 3 | 1:6,126,490 | 60,119 |
| Cook Islands | - | 3 | 1:6,051 | 772 |
| Armenia | - | 2 | 1:1,459,376 | 10,220 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Cambodia | - | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Croatia | 100% | 2 | 1:2,108,538 | 15,895 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Jordan | - | 2 | 1:4,413,387 | 8,826 |
| Macau | - | 2 | 1:304,104 | 1,640 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Senegal | - | 2 | 1:7,290,678 | 24,413 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Vietnam | - | 2 | 1:46,311,556 | 7,272 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Bahrain | - | 1 | 1:1,348,673 | 7,854 |
| Benin | - | 1 | 1:10,575,843 | 90,010 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Estonia | - | 1 | 1:1,315,380 | 8,883 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Georgia | - | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Ivory Coast | - | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Luxembourg | - | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Monaco | 100% | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:11,551,019 | 3,224 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
| Suriname | 100% | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Turkey | 100% | 1 | 1:77,801,709 | 91,051 |
| Tuvalu | - | 1 | 1:11,131 | 89 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
The alternate forms: Líllian (15) are calculated separately.
Lillian (417) may also be a surname.
Lillian Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. these names probably originated as pet-forms of Elizabeth (q.v.), cf. the German Lili for Elisabeth. Lillian is found as a christian name in England in the 16th C and Lillias at about the same time in Scotland; Lilian occurs as a surname as early as 1273 and looks like a diminutive in -on of Lily. Some of the many surnames Lilly, Lilley, Lyly, Liley, &c., may be from a christian name Lily, though it is not on record earlier than the 19th C, when it has no longer any connexion with Lilian, but is merely a flower- name adopted as a christian name. Lilias or Lillias has remained principally a Scottish name. Lillah appears to be a 19th-C invention, perhaps a mixture of Lily and Leila (q.v.).
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
A spelling-variant of Lilian; perhaps on Gillian.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Lillian Forename Popularity
Lillian Demographics
Lillian Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Sample size: 422 (1901)
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Phonetically Similar Names
Lillian Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lillian in the Russian language | ||
| Лиллиан | lillian | - |
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