Li

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Li: Recorded since 1996, it reached #764 in 2006, and it was last ranked in 2017.

2registrars recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
22years from first to last
#764highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2016

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1999	#3225
2002	#4137
2004	#4598
2005	#4798
2006	#4157
2007	#2085
2008	#5545
2009	#4564
2010	#2392
2011	#4049
2013	#4739
2014	#4003
2016	#4763

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 14 of the 21 years from 1996 to 2016.

In 2006: #764 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4157 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 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 recent2017
Most recently recorded at #4812 among boys in England and Wales, in 2017.
England and Wales · Boys

Li appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 14 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 66 births with the name.

Li across 2 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.

Li'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	#3795 (1996)	#2085 (2007)	#4763 (2016)	14 of 21	66 (1996–2016)	11 (2007)
England and Wales · Boys	#3467 (2003)	#2507 (2008)	#4812 (2017)	8 of 15	34 (2003–2017)	7 (2008)

Li 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 Li in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	31	7 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	28	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

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

Li 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #764 in Republic of Ireland in 2006.

Li'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
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2017, ranked in 16 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #764, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2006, and 10 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 2 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.

Adelyn · #764, 14y
Alonzo · #764, 18y
Ana-Maria · #764, 17y
Anna-Leigh · #764, 15y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Anna-Leigh · #764, 15y
Bryanna · #764, 22y
Clarisse · #764, 19y
Eliezer · #764, 29y

Li was ranked #764 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2006. 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.

Li 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 Li without appearing here.

Li moved ahead of

Finlay Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4564 and #4564 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2392 and #5707.
Debra Compare
In 2009 they stood at #5545 and #5545 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2392 and #4688.
Lene Compare
In 2009 they stood at #5545 and #5545 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2392 and #4688.
Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4049 and #4049 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #5691.

Moved ahead of Li

Aksel Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2507 and #3158 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #4527 and #2837.
Frida Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3225 and #3900 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #3409.
Blake Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2085 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #3936.

Moved the opposite way to Li

Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Li went from #3225 to #4763 while Frida went from #3900 to #955.

Moved the same way as Li

Finley Compare
Between 1999 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Li went from #3225 to #4763 and Finley from #1261 to #5785.

What's not yet available

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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #764 in Republic of Ireland in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

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Li across 2 official records

Li by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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