Lily



Gender:
Origin: Latin
251 famous people named Lily found on Wikipedia.
148003 female, 140 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 31-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 15-th in year 2011
Used in: English

Meanings

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'.


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.


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

Famous People: 251 found on Wikipedia.
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