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The LILY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 255 71372 0 1
United States (1880 census) 266 15665 0.001 5
Change since 1880 -11 -55707 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 10 85916 0 1
United Kingdom 34 27165 0 1
Top States for LILY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 33 60922 0.000 1
New York 26 63378 0.000 1
North Carolina 20 22452 0.000 2
Texas 18 54720 0.000 1
Michigan 11 82512 0.000 1
Top States for LILY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 3 24453 0.000 4
West Virginia 7 15857 0.000 4
North Dakota 2 25713 0.000 3
North Carolina 20 22452 0.000 2
Alabama 8 25535 0.000 2

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LILY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LILY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LILY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LILY by picking someone at random in South Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LILY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the LILY surname.

Ethnic distribution of LILY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 150 58.82
Black/African American 71 27.84
White (Hispanic) 16 6.27
Asian/Pacific 12 4.71
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LILY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

LILY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of LILY in historical publications

LILY. See Lilly.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LILY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LILY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LILY

The following words are slight variants of LILY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.