Lael

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Lael: Recorded since 2008, its highest recorded position is #655, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
21times a registrar ranked it
17years from first to last
#655highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#5545
2011	#4049
2013	#5742
2014	#3514
2015	#4736
2016	#3609
2017	#4763
2018	#3518
2020	#3899
2021	#2711
2022	#2178
2023	#2063
2024	#1819

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 13 of the 17 years from 2008 to 2024.

In 2024: #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #727 among boys in Scotland, #729 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2008–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2008
First recorded at #5545 among girls in England and Wales in 2008 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1819 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Lael appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 13 years beginning in 2008, and has registered 92 births with the name.

Lael 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.

Lael'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	#5545 (2008)	#1819 (2024)	#1819 (2024)	13 of 17	92 (2008–2024)	16 (2024)
England and Wales · Boys	#3908 (2015)	#729 (2024)	#729 (2024)	6 of 10	75 (2015–2024)	48 (2024)

Lael 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 Lael in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	34	7 of 10	5
2020sbusiest	55	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 11 births a year.

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

Lael 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 3 regions, from 2008 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #655 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Lael'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	#1819	16	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#729	48	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2063	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2325	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2178	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 2008 and 2024, ranked in 14 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #655, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 48 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

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 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 16 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.

Ladan · #2301, 19y
Lady · #1979, 22y
Lahna · #2063, 12y
Laia · #1948, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Raeya · #671, 19y
Arabelle · #638, 18y
Ireoluwa · #638, 17y
Marleigh · #638, 19y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Ahaan · #655, 16y
Beyonce · #655, 13y
Eros · #655, 15y
Moksh · #655, 15y

Lael was ranked #655 in Republic of Ireland · Boys 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.

Lael 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 Lael without appearing here.

Lael moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2325 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #729 and #5119.
Keith Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2325 and #2325 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #729 and #3688.
Kirsten Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3518 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #5581.
Levi Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #3899 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Lael

Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4736 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #2706.

Moved the opposite way to Lael

Abigail Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lael went from #5545 to #1819 while Abigail went from #29 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lael went from #5545 to #1819 while Aimee went from #86 to #1603.
Alex Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lael went from #5545 to #1819 while Alex went from #397 to #2253.
Alexandra Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lael went from #5545 to #1819 while Alexandra went from #90 to #215.

Moved the same way as Lael

Ada Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lael went from #5545 to #1819 and Ada from #699 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lael went from #5545 to #1819 and Alma from #1247 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lael went from #5545 to #1819 and Amelia from #9 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lael went from #5545 to #1819 and Aria from #1135 to #35.

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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 3 regions, from 2008 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #655 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lael

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Lael across 2 official records

Lael by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Lael across 2 official records

Lael by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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