Lily

Lily is a feminine given name directly derived from lily, the flower. The popularity of the name increased steadily in most English-speaking countries during the late 20th century. In the United States, "Lily" became one of the top-100 names for newborn girls in 2002 and reached a rank of 18 by 2009. In England in 2011, Lily was the 3rd most popular name for baby girls. In Northern Ireland, "Lily" increased in rank by 90 places in 2003, reaching the top 100.
Following is a short annotated list of persons, real and fictional, sharing "Lily" as a given name, representative of the breadth in geography and time of the name's use.
It being derived from a flower, the name is supposed to mean things like 'pure', 'innocent', or 'cute'.

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Old English lilie, from Latin lilia, plural of lilium "a lily," cognate with Greek leirion, both perhaps borrowed from a corrupted pronunciation of an eastern Mediterranean word (de Vaan compares Coptic hreri, hleli "lily"). Used in Old Testament to translate Hebrew shoshanna and in New Testament to translate Greek krinon. As an adjective, 1530s, "white, pure, lovely;" later "pale, colorless" (1580s). Figurative of whiteness, fairness, purity. The Latin word has become the general word in languages across Europe: German lilie, Dutch lelie, Swedish lilja, French lis, Spanish lirio, Italian giglio, Polish lilija, Russian liliya. The French word is contracted from Latin lilius, a rare surviving nominative form in French. In Old French lilie (12c.) also existed. Related: Lilied; lilaceous. The lily of the valley translates Latin lilium convallium (Vulgate), a literal rendition of the Hebrew term in Song of Solomon ii:1; in modern times the name was applied to a particular plant (Convallaria majalis) apparently first by 16c. German herbalists. Lily pad is from 1834, American English. For gild the lily see gilded.

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Pure, like a flower, name of the flower, symbol of purity.

Lilou, Lilly, Elizabeth, Illya

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Lily Collins	1989	Actress, model, writer, and television host
2	Lily James	1989	English actress
3	Lily Tomlin	1939	American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
4	Lily Rabe	1982	American stage and screen actress
5	Lily Allen	1985	English singer, songwriter, actress, and television presenter
6	Lily Aldridge	1985	American model
7	Lily Cole	1987	English model and actress
8	Lily Carter	1990	American pornographic actress
9	Lily Labeau	1991	American pornographic actress
10	Morgan Lily	2000	American child actress and model
11	Lily Aldrin	1978	Fictional character in the television series How I Met Your Mother
12	Lily Loveless	1990	British actress
13	Tiger Lily		Friend of Peter Pan
14	Lily Donaldson	1987	English model
15	Amelia Lily	1994	Singer
16	Lily Nicksay	1988	American actress
17	Lily Pons	1898	American opera singer and actress
18	Lily Safra	1934	Brazilian philanthropist and social figure
19	Lily Serna	1986	Australian mathematician
20	Lily Winters
21	Lily Zhang	1996	American table tennis player
22	Lily Laight	2001	Actress
23	Lily Elsie	1886	Stage and film actor
24	Lily Tyler
25	Lilian Celia "Lily" Bass	1967
26	Lily King	1963	American writer
27	Lily Gladstone	1986
28	Lily Owsley	1994	British field hockey player
29	Lily McMenamy	1994	English model
30	Lily May Atkinson	1866	Temperance campaigner, suffragist, feminist
31	Lily Mariye	1956	American actress and filmmaker
32	Lily Chakravarty	1941
33	Lily Pérez	1963	Chilean politician
34	Lily Chao		Fictional registrar emergency medic in BBC TV medical drama Casualty
35	Lily Koppel	1981	American writer
36	Lily Neo	1953	Singaporean politician
37	Lily Eskelsen	1955	American teacher and trade union leader
38	Lily Chung	1964	Hong Kong actress
39	Lily Parr	1905	Association footballer
40	Lily Walsh Snyder
41	Lily Sullivan	1994
42	Lily Brett	1946	Australian writer
43	Lily Thai	1981	American pornographic actor
44	Lily Franky	1963	Japanese actor and illustrator
45	Lily Afshar	1960	Musician
46	Lily Li	1950	Hong Kong actor
47	Lily Luik	1985
48	Lily Monteverde	1928	Filipino film producer and businesswoman
49	Lily Tirinnanzi	1938	Italian actress
50	Lily Chakraborty	1972	Composer, Singer
51	Lily May Ledford	1917	American musician
52	Lily Maisky	1987	Classical Pianist
53	Gilded Lily
54	Lily Ho	1988	Hong Kong actor
55	Lily Burana		American writer
56	Lily Frost		Canadian singer
57	Lily Braun	1865	German writer
58	Lily Thomas	1927	Indian Lawyer
59	Lily Baron	1921	French actress
60	Lily Hanbury	1874	British actress
61	Amber Lily	1997	American actress and singer
62	Lily Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough	1854	American heiress
63	Lily Snowden-Fine	1998
64	Lily Yeats	1866	Irish artist
65	Lily Butterfield		Fictional character from the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
66	Lily Tien	1967
67	Lily Tuck	1938	American writer
68	Lily Leung	1933	Singer and actor
69	Lily Hoshino		Japanese manga artist
70	Lily Tembo	1981	Singer, songwriter, radio host
71	Lily Elise	1991
72	Miss Shangay Lily	1963	Spanish drag queen
73	Lily	1952	Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
74	William Lily	1468	English grammarian
75	Lily Renée	1925	Comics artist
76	Lily Morris	1882	Music hall performer
77	Lily Blake Capwell
78	Lily Laskine	1893	French harpist
79	Lily Halpern	1991	American singer
80	Lily Kronberger	1890	Hungarian figure skater
81	Lily Eberwein	1900
82	Lily Chodidjah Wahid		Indonesian politician
83	Lily Travers
84	Lily Ross Taylor	1886	American historian
85	Lily D'Ambrosio	1964	Politician
86	Lily Chitty	1893	Archaeologist and antiquary
87	Lily Auchincloss	1922	American journalist, philanthropist, and art collector
88	Lily Yeh	1941	American artist
89	Lily Bloom		French actress
90	Lily Rae	1990	British musician
91	Lily Montagu	1873	Activist
92	Lily McBeth	1934	American activist
93	Lily Furedi	1896
94	Lily Brayton	1876	British actor and singer
95	Lily Cahill	1888	American actress
96	Lily Morett	2002	Spanish actress
97	Lily Klee	1876
98	Lily Mae	1996	American singer/songwriter/musician
99	Lily Kann	1893	German actress
100	Lily Mazahery	1972	American feminist, activist, lawyer
101	Lily Pilblad	2000	American actress
102	Lily Süllős	1928	Argentinian writer and astrologer
103	Lily L. Allen	1867	British author
104	Lily Yip	1963	American Olympian table tennis player
105	Lily Kwan		Model
106	Lily Lodge	1932	American actress
107	Lily Chan	1983	Chinese singer
108	Lily Jackson	1998	American actress
109	Lily Kempson	1897
110	Lily van den Broecke	1992	British adaptive rower
111	Lily E. Kay	1947	American historian of science
112	Lily Fayol	1914	French singer
113	Lily Laita	1969	New Zealand artist
114	Lily Goddard	1916	Designer of printed textiles, paper products and carpets from Vienna, Austria
115	Lily Ann Granderson	1816	American slave
116	Lily Alfonso		Malawian fashion dsigner
117	Lily Schreyer		Canadian Viceregal consort
118	Lily Castel	1937	Belgian singer
119	Lily Bristow
120	Lily Pastré	1891	French philanthropist
121	Lily Jane Stead	1993	British actress
122	Lily Poulett-Harris	1873	Australian cricketer
123	Lily Bouwmeester	1901	Dutch actress
124	Lily van Angeren-Franz	1924	German writer (1924-2011)
125	Lily Broberg	1923	Danish actress
126	Lily Lyoonjung Lee	1969	Figure skater
127	Lily Ah Toy	1917	Northern Territory, Australia pioneer
128	Lily Becker	1898
129	Peta Lily		Australian actress and director
130	Lily Hassan
131	George Lily		British priest
132	Lily Thibault	1982	Canadian actress
133	Lily Young		Microbiologist
134	Lily Kelly Napangardi	1948	Australian artist
135	Lily Hildebrandt	1887	German painter
136	Lily Garafulic	1914	Sculptor
137	Lily Strickland	1884	American composer, painter and writer
138	Lily Newton	1893	Botanist (1893-1981)
139	Lily Mackall		American spy
140	Lily Isabel Maude Addison	1885	Australian architect
141	Lily Unden	1908	Luxembourgish writer
142	Lily Weiding	1924	Danish actress
143	Lily Osman Adams	1865	Canadian painter (1865-1945)
144	Lily Marinho	1921	Brazilian philanthropist
145	Lily Sosa de Newton	1920	Argentinian historian
146	Lily Kim	1980	Korean American reporter
147	Lily Dougall	1858	Canadian writer
148	Lily Yam	1947	Hong Kong-Chinese politician
149	Lily Carlstedt	1926	Danish javelin thrower
150	Lily May Perry	1895	Canadian botanist (1895–1992)
151	Lily Venson	1924	Journalist, poet, women's and civil rights activist.
152	Lily Powell		English author
153	Lily Ehrenfried	1896
154	Lily Oddie	1937	Canadian politician
155	Lily Grosser	1894
156	Lily Sumantri
157	Lily Saxby		British actress
158	Lily Boeykens	1930	Belgian feminist (1930-2005)
159	Lily Tobias	1887
160	Lily Vincent	1926
161	Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey
162	Lily Pringsheim	1887	German politician
163	Lily Addison	1885	Australian tennis player
164	Lily Sykes	1984	British theatre director
165	Lily Yulianti Farid	1971	Writer and Journalist
166	Lily Dampier		Australian actress
167	Lily Petersen	1913	Dutch presenter / journalist
168	Lily Gower	1877	British croquet player
169	Lily Blatherwick	1854	English painter
170	Lily Pincus	1898	British author
171	Lily Beaurepaire	1893	Australian swimmer, diver, Olympic athlete
172	Lily Berglund	1928	Swedish female schlager singer
173	Lily Sobhani	1976	British live events producer
174	Lily Ho Li Li	1946
175	Lily Hoy Price		Canadian writer
176	Lily Matthews	1989	Racing cyclist
177	Lily Bollinger	1899
178	Lily Brown	1981	American writer
179	Lily Haass	1886
180	Lily Knibbeler	1968	Dutch historian and librarian
181	Lily Thapa		Nepalese activist
182	Lily Neill		American musician
183	Lily Spence		Irish sports administrator
184	Lily Benson	1986	American artist and filmmaker
185	Lily Inglis	1926	Architect
186	Lily Nungarrayi Yirringali Jurrah Hargraves		Australian artist
187	Lily Butters	1894	Canadian activist
188	Lily Rani Biswas	1989
189	Lily Lévy	1882	French writer, poet and journalist
190	Lily Abegg	1901	Swiss journalist
191	Lily Alice Lefevre	1853	Canadian singer and author
192	Lily Jan	2000	American university teacher
193	Lily von Essen	1896	Swedish sportsperson (1896-1990)
194	Lily Fabiola de la Rosa	1970	Mexican politician
195	Lily Champ
196	Lily Vallquist	1897
197	Lily Yellow	1984	Swiss singer
198	Lily Granado	1922	French actor (1922-1960)
199	Lily Kwok	1918
200	Lily Schmidt-Nielsen	1910