Lilla

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lilla is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: forma fem. de Lillo.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 200K◐
  • HUHungary1 in 437
  • PLPoland1 in 8.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈29K ●

across 12 countries

Sources
187 ●

21K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 437 ◐

Hungary

Meaning & origin●

forma fem. de Lillo.

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Lilla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary22,371△12 rec.1 in 43722KLilla7
PL Poland4,7150 rec.1 in 8.1K4.7K—1
US United States1,66117K rec.1 in 200K1.7KLilla187
GB United Kingdom846990 rec.—3Lilla59
AU Australia647622 rec.—2Lilla43
CA Canada323354 rec.—7Lilla36
IT Italy315432 rec.—2Lilla22
NO Norway21719 rec.—202Lilla6
SE Sweden132△34 rec.1 in 77K132Lilla15
RU Russia8990 rec.——Lilla7
DK Denmark82△21 rec.1 in 72K82Lilla27
FI Finland81△8 rec.1 in 69K176—3

Roughly 22K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 437). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hungarian238K83%
  • Polish21K7%
  • English16K6%
  • French1.9K1%
  • German1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian238,32683%
Polish21,4827%
English16,3306%
French1,9501%
German1,1871%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Lilla is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name23K records spelled Lilla13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Лілла, Лилла, Лиллы, Lillà

  • Spanish given name3.4K records spelled Lilla4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Italy

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lillà, Lílla

  • a separate given name1.1K records spelled Lilla3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Italy

    Also written Lillā, Lillà

  • Finnish given name837 records spelled Lilla3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Lîllã

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Lilla is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, Lille (the capital city of Nord department, France; the capital city of the region of Hauts-de-France)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, alternative form of lilla, a light type of fieldpiece known from the East Indies

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, definite singular of liten

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, lilac, purple (colour)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, violet, purple (color)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

025507510019001950200085 · 1918

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Lilla in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188035
188132
188244
188343
188436
188543
188652
188727
188856
188940
189045
189144
189255
189343
189449
189547
189655
189746
189839
189942
190057
190143
190249
190340
190436
190554
190641
190744
190840
190927
191039
191137
191247
191352
191462
191558
191674
191767
191885
191966
192076
192176
192281
192375
192475
192553
192672
192756
192852
192941
193045
193140
193240
193341
193446
193534
193639
193728
193840
193936
194027
194136
194229
194331
194422
194538
194622
194737
194825
194922
195016
195125
195224
195323
195412
195516
195610
195711
195812
19599
19608
196112
196213
196314
196413
196510
196610
196711
19686
196911
197011
197110
19725
19737
197510
19767
19786
19798
198012
19886
19898
19907
19916
19926
19935
19955
19977
199812
19997
200011
200113
200220
200318
200425
200531
200636
200744
200838
200941
201037
201141
201251
201344
201438
201540
201626
201733
201827
201936
202019
202122
202226
202327
202433
202526

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 135 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

180018501900195020002050Lilla Cabot Perry, b. 1848Lilla Hansen, b. 1872Lilla Kunvári, b. 1897Lilla Brignone, b. 1913Lilla von Puttkamer, b. 1973Lilla Zuckerman, b. 1974Lilla Sipos, b. 1992Lilla Barzó, b. 1996Lilla Crawford, b. 2001Lilla Kizlinger, b. 2001

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 61 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Lilla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202522K#63
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4.7K#267
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20264.7K#267
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.7K#8,654
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010529#41,164
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020526#44,069
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000486#42,056
HU Hungarymagyarnevek — given names by decade1997429#28
HU HungaryKSH — births by given name2024336—
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024)2024336#27
HU Hungarymagyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F)2025319#25
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—202#4,763

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 398 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lilla?
We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Lilla (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Lilla have the most bearers?
We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Lilla in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lilla.
Where is Lilla most common?
Lilla is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 437 people carrying it.
Is Lilla a male or female name?
Lilla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Lilla mean?
Recorded meaning: forma fem. de Lillo.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Lilla”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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