Lilli

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) English form of Lilja (lily) ^{[1] [2]}

2) Pet form of Elisabet ^{[1] [3] [2]}

3) Pet form of any name containing the letters li, e.g. Cecilia, Emilia, Julie, Karolina, Olivia etc. ^[1]

4) Short form of Lilith ^[4]

Related Names

Lili	♀
Lilie	♀
Lilli	♀
Lillie	♀
Lilly	♀
Lily	♀

See also Li and Lilian

Combinations

Name Element	Example
ANN	see Lilian
BET	see Lillibeth

Name Days

Finland

20 May

Finland (Swedish Language)

20 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1861 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		2088	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		266	558	0	0
Norway[7]		179	450	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	2815	n.a	1
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[6][5][7][8]:

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
4. ↑ Own theory. No references found, yet.
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi