Lilly

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Lilli , or Lilly , Lili or Lily , is a female given name .

Origin and meaning

Lilli and the subsidiary forms Lilly, Lili, Lily are pet forms or Lall forms from children's language, mostly for the first name Elisabeth . These pet forms are also used for other first names, such as Adele, Alice, Dietlinde, Emilie, Elia, Ileana, Juliana, Karoline, Liselotte, Luisa, Lydia, Lysiane.

Occasionally the meaning is also given with lily , because the English spelling of these plants is Lily. However, there is no connection between Lilli and Lilith .

The name and its subsidiary forms became known primarily through the soldier song Lili Marleen .

The first name Lilly and its subsidiary forms Lilli and Lili have occurred frequently since around 2001 and were always among the 20 most common first names for newborn girls from 2002 to 2010. The name has therefore become a fashion name.

variants

There are numerous different spellings. The variants Lili and Lily with a single L and Lilli, Lillie and Lilly with a double L are particularly common. These are sometimes again abbreviated to Lil and Lyl.

The contraction with variants of the name Anna as Lil [l] i-Ann [e] is widespread worldwide . Possible variants of this include Lilian, Lillian , Liliane , Liliana, Lilliane, Lilliana, Lilijahne or Liana , Liane. These first names can again be abbreviated as variants of Lily.

Other, more rare variants include Lilija, Lilla, Lilka, Lylli, Lilo and Lillo.

Well-known namesake

The following lists of names only list people once, even if multiple spellings are used for the name.

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Other forms

  • Leelee Sobieski (* 1983), American actress and film producer
  • Lil Picard (1899–1994), German-American actress and journalist
  • Lyli Herse (1928–2018), French racing cyclist

family name

Fictitious namesake

Others

Individual evidence

  1. Wilfried Seibicke, Given Names, 3rd edition 2002, p. 204
  2. The large first name dictionary, Dudenverlag, 3rd edition 2007, p. 267
  3. Lilly / Lilli / Lily, Knud Bielefeld, Popular-Vornamen.de