Lily Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Lily is usually a form of Lilly.

What does the surname Lily mean?

Read literally, Lily points to “Lily-fair, or from Lilley”. The 2010 US Census counted 383 people named Lily, ranking it number 53,913 among American surnames.

How is Lily related to Lilly?

Without the “l” of Lilly, Lily is a simpler written form of the same name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Lilley.

Does every Lily family have a crest?

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Lily, so the heraldry linked to Lilly is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Get the complete Lily report, with a museum-style coat of arms.