Lili

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Lili: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #351 in 2004, and it stood at #497 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#351highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#974
1997	#803
1998	#530
1999	#440
2000	#478
2001	#557
2002	#413
2003	#450
2004	#351
2005	#446
2006	#419
2007	#404
2008	#427
2009	#410
2010	#538
2011	#458
2012	#522
2013	#492
2014	#508
2015	#539
2016	#645
2017	#637
2018	#587
2019	#590
2020	#559
2021	#674
2022	#541
2023	#496
2024	#497

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #497 among girls in England and Wales, #638 among girls in Scotland, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #974 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
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #351 among girls in England and Wales, in 2004 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #497 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Lili 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 2,153 births with the name.

Lili 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.

Lili'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	#974 (1996)	#351 (2004)	#497 (2024)	29 of 29	2,153 (1996–2024)	109 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#490 (2003)	#490 (2003)	#736 (2024)	16 of 22	78 (2003–2024)	8 (2008)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#413 (2007)	#391 (2023)	#391 (2023)	4 of 17	12 (2007–2023)	3 (2007)

Lili 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 Lili in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	168	4 of 10	42
2000sbusiest	863	10 of 10	86
2010s	764	10 of 10	76
2020s	358	5 of 10	72

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 86 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2003 and 2004, when recorded births rose by 33, from 76 to 109.

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

Lili 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 2024. Highest recorded position: #351 in England and Wales in 2004.

Lili'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	#497	79	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#496	80	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#541	72	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#674	57	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#559	70	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#590	67	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#587	70	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#637	65	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#645	65	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#539	80	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#508	83	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#492	86	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#522	81	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#458	93	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#538	74	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#410	103	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#427	99	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#404	102	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#419	100	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#446	83	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#351	109	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#450	76	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#413	79	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#557	50	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#478	62	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#440	68	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#530	51	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#803	28	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#974	21	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	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	#494	8	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#540	7	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	7	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#641	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#501	8	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	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 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #351, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 109 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, 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.

Lilah-Rose · #963, 14y
Lile · #298, 17y
Lilia · #175, 30y
Lilian · #194, 68y

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.

Kennedy · #351, 30y
Zarah · #351, 33y
Marcie · #350, 29y
Reya · #350, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Adley · #351, 19y
Aislin · #351, 12y
Daniyal · #351, 29y
Elspeth · #351, 29y

Lili was ranked #351 in England and Wales · Girls in 2004. 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.

Lili 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 Lili without appearing here.

Lili moved ahead of

Tracey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #974 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #803 and #1450.
Sandra Compare
In 1997 they stood at #803 and #736 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #530 and #1122.
Eileen Compare
In 1996 they stood at #974 and #916 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #803 and #1365.
Patricia Compare
In 2021 they stood at #674 and #640 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #541 and #963.

Moved ahead of Lili

Thea Compare
In 2013 they stood at #540 and #587 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #876 and #229.
Summer Compare
In 2004 they stood at #490 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2005 that had become #689 and #320.
Emilie Compare
In 2004 they stood at #490 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2005 that had become #689 and #347.
Cassandra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #540 and #747 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #876 and #584.

Moved the opposite way to Lili

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lili went from #974 to #497 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lili went from #974 to #497 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lili went from #974 to #497 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lili went from #974 to #497 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Lili

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lili went from #974 to #497 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lili went from #974 to #497 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lili went from #974 to #497 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lili went from #974 to #497 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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 2024. Highest recorded position: #351 in England and Wales in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lili

Lili at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lili across 3 official records

Lili by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lili appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Lili at a glance

Lili across 3 official records

Lili by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lili appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lili

Lili and the names beside it

Lili moved ahead of

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