Lilly

English flower name
"lily"

Lilly Origin and Meaning

The name Lilly is a girl's name of English origin meaning "lily".

Lilly may contain one L too many for some people, though this secondary spelling of a name that's become wildly popular is still a popular choice. And the Lilly spelling does feel a bit less wispy, a bit more like a name as opposed to a mere flower, than the slender and delicate Lily. Lilly suggests the long-form Lillian, but it doesn't need to be an abbreviation for anything; Lilly can stand on its own.

However, if you love the flower name but want to make it a little different, you've got to move far beyond Lilly — or Lillian, Liliane, and sisters. You might consider Susannah, which means lily, or a less expected bloom like Azalea or Lotus.

# 257 in the US

Lilly Rank in US Top 1000

# 919 on Nameberry

Lilly Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Lilly Popularity

Famous People Named Lilly

  • Lillian Lee "Lilly" (McKim) Pulitzer
    American fashion designer and socialite
  • Lilly Ledbetter
    American women's fair pay activist
  • Lilly Singh
    Canadian YouTuber
  • Lilly Scholz
    Austrian pair skater
  • Lilly King
    American swimmer
  • Lilly Winwood
    English singer; daughter of musician Steve Winwood
  • Lilly McDowell
    daughter of actors Mary Steenburgen and Malcolm McDowell

Lilly in Pop Culture

  • Lilly Rush
    main character on the TV series "Cold Case"
  • Lillian "Lilly" Truscott
    character on TV's "Hannah Montana"
  • Lilly Moscovitz
    character in the Princess Diaries series
  • Lillian "Lilly" Kane
    character in TV's "Veronica Mars"
  • Lilly Gilkeson
    character in film "The Missing"
  • Lilly Berry
    a character in "Hotel New Hampshire" by John Irving
  • Lilly Mattock
    character on British soap "EastEnders"
  • "Lilly Turner
    " 1933 film and its main character
  • Liliana "Lilly" Mendoza
    character in the Young Adult book, "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe", by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
  • Lilly Satou
    character in the visual novel "Katawa Shoujo"