Lilli
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Danish: a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/ˈlɪli/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Lilli is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 3.2K
- DEGermany≈1 in 5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Lilli
- German:/ˈlɪli/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lilli is read
(measured from records)Lilli is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lilli in English.
- German33%
-ig/-ich-Variation im Gutturalbereich; kein Einzel-Etymologietext auf der Seite.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
) Lil; Lili; Lili: weibl. Vom., Kose form - eigentlich Lallform aus der Kinder sprache - von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Hindi13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lilli in Hindi.
- Danish8.2%
a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lilli, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lilli counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #822 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Lilli | 173 |
| IN India | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 103K | 11 | Lilli | 12 |
| US United States | — | 3,758 | 1 in 89K | 3.7K | Lilli | 158 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 4 | Lilli | 25 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,426 | 1 in 2.3K | 3.9K | Lilli | 11 |
| DK Denmark | #687 | 1,844 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.8K | Lilli | 50 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 998 | Lilli | 51 |
| NO Norway | — | 659 | 1 in 8.3K | 2K | Lilli | 27 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lilli is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma pl. ou alterada de Lillo.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Latvian, Cilvēka vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lilli Palmerb. 1914DEGerman actress (1914–1986)
- Lilli Schwarzkopfb. 1983DEGerman heptathlete
- Lilli Schweigerb. 1998DEGerman actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)72 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lilli mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Lilli?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Lilli a male or female name?
- Lilli is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Lilli?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Lilli in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lilli. After it come India, United States, Italy and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lilli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lilli is densest in Finland — about 1 in 2.3 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Lilli?
- In German /ˈlɪli/ (Wiktionary).
- How common is the name Lilli?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,758 people named Lilli in 2020, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
- How common is Lilli compared with other names?
- In Germany, Lilli is the 822nd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lilli?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lilliThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lilli” — the 822nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.