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Girl's nameOrigin: internationalIn Israel: rising

LiliIn Hebrew: לילי · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: לִילִיRomanization: líli

Lili (Hebrew: לילי) is a girl's name of international origin. 3,200 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 62 girls and ranked #258. Its peak year was 1956, with 94 babies.

People in Israel
3,200
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
62
rank #258
Peak year
1956
94 babies
USA, 2025
61
rank #2,778

Writing and saying Lili

In Hebrew letters the name is לילי, read right to left. Lili is the Latin spelling recorded in Wiktionary; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "líli" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a female given name from English Lily

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Lili by year: Israel and abroad

How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Lili: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Lili in English-speaking countries

Lili in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States202561#2,7782003 (139)
United Kingdom202577#5532004 (113)
England and Wales202572#5512004 (109)
Scotland20255#5392011 (9)
Alberta20252#1,6182007 (5)
Quebec202510#4672010 (43)

Counts for girls. The Hebrew page for Lili has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Lili

How do you write Lili in Hebrew?

Lili is written לילי in Hebrew (with vowel points: לִילִי). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "líli".

How many people in Israel are named Lili?

3,200 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name לילי: 3,191 women and 9 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Lili a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a girl's name: 99.7% of the people named לילי are women.

What does the name Lili mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a female given name from English Lily"

Is Lili used outside Israel?

The name Lili appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 61 girls were given it in 2025 (#2,778), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 77 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.