Lilia (name)

Lilia is a feminine given name and family name .

Origin and meaning

Lilia is derived from the plant genus of lilies (lat. Lilium). This meaning should not be confused with those of the first name Lilli and their variants ( Lilly , Lili , Lily ) which pet forms or Lall forms from children's language are for certain first names, especially Elisabeth .

variants

• Lilija
• Lilya
• Lilijana

Well-known namesake

family name

• Josef Hilarius Nowalski de Lilia (1857–1928), Austrian archaeologist
• Karl Lilia Ritter von Westegg († 1881), kk field marshal lieutenant and really secret advice

First name

• Lilia Boumrar (* 1988), Algerian soccer player
• Lilia Dale (born 1919), Italian actress
• Lilia Ignatowa (* 1965), Bulgarian gymnast
• Lilia Lehner (* 1978), German actress
• Lilia Ludan (* 1969), Ukrainian luge athlete
• Lília Momplé (* 1935), Mozambican writer
• Lilia Osterloh (* 1978), American tennis player
• Ana Lilia Pérez (* 1976), Mexican journalist and author
• Lilia Prado (1928–2006), Mexican actress
• Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (* 1957), Brazilian human scientist
• Lilia Skala (1896–1994), American film and theater actress of Austrian origin

literature

• Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Lilia . In: Duden - The great first name dictionary . 3. Edition. Bibliographer. Institut AG, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2 (also: Duden - The large first name dictionary. 5th edition 2007 with ISBN 978-3-411-04945-5 ).