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Lily in Korean: 릴리

Lily is written 릴리 in Korean and read “Rilli”. NIKL’s usage list spells this name differently for different people, so this page follows the official loanword rules for English. In US birth records for 2000–2025 it ranks No. 94.

Your name written in KoreanBy the rules
Read as: Rilli

Where the spelling 릴리 comes from

The NIKL list spells Lily differently for different people — 릴리 (1) — so this page follows the Loanword Orthography: Table 1 and Chapter 3, Section 1 (English). Read the rules (Korean)

Look up 릴리 in the NIKL list (Korean)

Sound by sound

Li릴ly리

Why it is spelled this way

  • [l] between vowels is written ㄹㄹ (Loanword Orthography, English art.6-2).

What Lily means

“lily”

From English word lily · In Korean: 백합

Source: Wiktionary — lily · CC BY-SA 4.0

Lily by the numbers

  • US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 94, 160,503 babies (99.9% girls, 0.1% boys).
  • NIKL usage list — people with the given name 릴리: 1.

Korean names for Lily

These are the converter’s results for Lily as a girl’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).

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박릴리Park RilliGirl’s name · 100% sound matchHangul-only name — no hanja
박리아Park RiaGirl’s name · 60% sound match
박아린Park ArinGirl’s name · 54% sound match

No surname given, so we picked 박, one of the three most common Korean surnames.

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Meaning

Korean names from what Lily means.

Your name means: 백합 · lily (from English word lily)

박백합Park BaekhapLiteral translation — fun, not a common Korean name
박나리Park NariReal Korean name with the same meaning
박릴리Park RilliYour name, Korean styleHangul-only name — no hanja

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Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics