About the name Tilly
Tilly belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Tilly first appears in Social Security records in 1912. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #953 in 2024, and in 2024 273 babies received the name — 2,395 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.