Lily is the English flower name, from the Latin lilium, and the lily has long stood for "purity" and innocence; it was also used as a pet form of Elizabeth. Like Violet and Rose it belongs to the Victorian flower names that returned around 2000. Lily climbed from number 124 in 2000 into the top 100 in 2002, peaked at fifteenth in 2011 and ranks eighteenth in 2025.