Lillian

A Victorian confection, Lillian grew out of Elizabeth and the lily both, a flower long coded with purity in medieval Marian iconography. It hit its first American peak around 1918, when Lillian Gish was still the face of silent film and Lillian Hellman was a schoolgirl who would later write for Broadway. The name slipped through midcentury, then came roaring back on the antique-revival wave that lifted Olivia and Isabella. It currently ranks 54, given to about one in 416 girls. Three syllables of lace, though it wears well in cargo pants, too, and the nickname Lily keeps it light.