Eilidh

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Eilidh: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Eilidh: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #38, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
61times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#38highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#783
1997	#820
1998	#801
1999	#928
2000	#804
2001	#1107
2002	#1104
2003	#1224
2004	#1312
2005	#1343
2006	#1325
2007	#1384
2008	#995
2009	#1411
2010	#1332
2011	#1225
2012	#1184
2013	#1075
2014	#920
2015	#1007
2016	#994
2017	#899
2018	#826
2019	#881
2020	#992
2021	#1195
2022	#1180
2023	#1008
2024	#1262

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #38 among girls in Scotland, #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1262 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #783 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Eilidh appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 812 births with the name.

Eilidh across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Eilidh's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#783 (1996)	#783 (1996)	#1262 (2024)	29 of 29	812 (1996–2024)	45 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#498 (2001)	#498 (2001)	#608 (2025)	18 of 25	70 (2001–2025)	5 (2013)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#377 (2005)	#228 (2020)	#302 (2023)	13 of 19	66 (2005–2023)	7 (2018)

Eilidh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Eilidh in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	107	4 of 10	27
2000s	206	10 of 10	21
2010sbusiest	349	10 of 10	35
2020s	150	5 of 10	30

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 35 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Eilidh appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #38 in Scotland in 2024.

Eilidh's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1262	26	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1008	34	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1180	28	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1195	28	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#992	34	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#881	41	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#826	45	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#899	42	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#994	36	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1007	35	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#920	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1075	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1184	28	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1225	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1332	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1411	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#995	31	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1384	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1325	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1343	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1224	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1104	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#804	28	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#928	23	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#801	28	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#820	27	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#783	29	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#302	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#305	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#266	6	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#228	7	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#238	7	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#276	6	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#277	6	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#277	6	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#268	6	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#38	91	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #38, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 91 births, registered in Scotland in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mollie · #37, 34y
Beth · #40, 34y
Callan · #36, 30y
Lacey · #36, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Eliana · #38, 30y
Jasper · #38, 30y
Leander · #38, 33y
Rhianna · #38, 29y

Eilidh was ranked #38 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Eilidh and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Eilidh without appearing here.

Eilidh moved ahead of

Levi Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1384 and #1296 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #995 and #2150.
Lorraine Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1312 and #1312 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1343 and #2438.
Aisling Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1184 and #1150 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1075 and #1864.
Judith Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1411 and #1325 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1332 and #2104.

Moved ahead of Eilidh

Audrey Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1224 and #1325 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1312 and #736.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #881 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #992 and #460.
Summer Compare
In 2006 they stood at #559 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #705 and #251.
Mila Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1104 and #1442 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1224 and #799.

Moved the opposite way to Eilidh

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eilidh went from #783 to #1262 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eilidh went from #783 to #1262 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eilidh went from #783 to #1262 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eilidh went from #783 to #1262 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Eilidh

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eilidh went from #783 to #1262 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eilidh went from #783 to #1262 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eilidh went from #783 to #1262 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Eilidh went from #783 to #1262 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #38 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Eilidh

Eilidh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Eilidh across 3 official records

Eilidh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Eilidh appears in

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Eilidh at a glance

Eilidh across 3 official records

Eilidh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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