Lei

maleStatistical record

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

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

1registrar recorded it
10times a registrar ranked it
23years from first to last
#2870highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2008

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#4598
2008	#4524

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 boys in England and Wales in 8 of the 23 years from 2002 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2002–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2002
First recorded at #3225 among boys in England and Wales in 2002 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2002–2024
Highest recorded position: #2870 among boys in England and Wales, in 2006 (recorded 2002–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5119 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Lei appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 8 years beginning in 2002, and has registered 26 births with the name.

Lei 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.

Lei'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 · Boys	#3225 (2002)	#2870 (2006)	#5119 (2024)	8 of 23	26 (2002–2024)	5 (2006)
England and Wales · Girls	#4598 (2004)	#4524 (2008)	#4524 (2008)	2 of 5	7 (2004–2008)	4 (2008)

Lei by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Lei in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000sbusiest	17	5 of 10	3
2010s	6	2 of 10	3
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 3 births a year.

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

Lei appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2002 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2870 in England and Wales in 2006.

Lei'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	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2002 and 2024, ranked in 8 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,870, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 5 births, registered in England and Wales in 2006.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
2 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
7 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#5,119position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
5births registered in its largest year, 2006Under 25 births →

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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Legend · #2488, 11y
Leia · #238, 30y
Leif · #17, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Prabh · #2870, 10y
Prabhdeep · #2870, 11y
Ritvik · #2870, 11y
Amaaya · #2869, 13y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Prabh · #2870, 10y
Ritvik · #2870, 11y
Devora · #2869, 15y
Hava · #2869, 10y

Lei 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 Lei without appearing here.

Moved ahead of Lei

Aksel Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2870 and #4052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #4432 and #3158.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2002 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2870 in England and Wales in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lei

Lei at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lei across 2 official records

Lei by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Lei appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Lei and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Lei

Lei at a glance

Lei across 2 official records

Lei by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Lei appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Lei and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Lei