Lilly

Lilly is Lily with an extra petal. The doubled-L spelling, long preferred in Germany and across parts of Scandinavia, points at the same white trumpet flower the Romans named for purity and the Victorians packed into symbolism — but tilts slightly sweeter, slightly more storybook on the page. In the United States it has ridden the early-twentieth-century flower-name revival and now holds steady at 259, running just behind its single-L sister. Two soft L's and a bright vowel tucked between them. A name that feels dressed in white cotton and slightly younger than its chart position, carrying garden air into any room.