Given name & surname
Lyly
“pagan worship”
Lyly is a masculine given name with more than one origin. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a surname, it goes back to a word meaning “pagan worship.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
As a surname, it goes back to a word meaning “pagan worship”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lyly through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 115
- 0 boys · 115 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 493 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lyly’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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