Entry № 5933 · Icelandic origin

Lilja Lilja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"A lily"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a lily".

Lilja is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning a lily.

A lily — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Lilja
Transliteration
Lilja
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Lilja stands.

Lilja does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Liljas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Lilja.

The number behind Lilja.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lilja reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.