Lilia

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Lilia: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #175 in 2007, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#175highest recorded position
15groupings 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	#1168
1997	#1802
1998	#2407
1999	#1805
2000	#2416
2001	#1305
2002	#1442
2003	#1383
2004	#883
2005	#319
2006	#228
2007	#175
2008	#215
2009	#235
2010	#266
2011	#299
2012	#368
2013	#342
2014	#363
2015	#377
2016	#398
2017	#549
2018	#408
2019	#443
2020	#478
2021	#449
2022	#462
2023	#467
2024	#439

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: #439 among girls in England and Wales, #541 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

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

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1168 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: #175 among girls in England and Wales, in 2007 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Lilia 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 2,911 births with the name.

Lilia 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.

Lilia'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	#1168 (1996)	#175 (2007)	#439 (2024)	29 of 29	2,911 (1996–2024)	304 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#424 (2013)	#718 (2025)	17 of 21	82 (2005–2025)	10 (2013)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#413 (2007)	#311 (2008)	#397 (2020)	7 of 14	25 (2007–2020)	5 (2008)

Lilia 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 Lilia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	40	4 of 10	10
2000s	1,162	10 of 10	116
2010sbusiest	1,255	10 of 10	126
2020s	454	5 of 10	91

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 126 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births rose by 97, from 30 to 127.

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

Lilia 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: #175 in England and Wales in 2007.

Lilia'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	#439	97	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#467	85	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#462	91	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#449	97	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#478	84	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#443	95	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#408	108	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#549	79	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#398	113	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#377	120	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#363	125	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#342	133	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#368	130	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#299	165	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#266	187	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#235	206	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#215	238	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#175	304	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#228	208	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#319	127	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#883	30	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1442	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1305	15	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1802	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1168	16	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#419	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#311	5	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	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	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#581	6	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	10	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	7	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#431	8	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	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 #175, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 304 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, 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.

Clementine · #175, 30y
Dakota · #175, 30y
Aliyah · #174, 30y
Halle · #176, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Clementine · #175, 30y
Dakota · #175, 30y
Aliyah · #174, 30y
Halle · #176, 30y

Lilia was ranked #175 in England and Wales · Girls in 2007. 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.

Lilia 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 Lilia without appearing here.

Lilia moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2416 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1305 and #3998.
Cheryl Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2416 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1305 and #3262.
Geraldine Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1305 and #1170 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1442 and #2301.
Belinda Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1383 and #909 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #883 and #1715.

Moved ahead of Lilia

Camilla Compare
In 2021 they stood at #495 and #544 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #905 and #458.
Wendy Compare
In 2021 they stood at #495 and #834 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #905 and #502.
Florence Compare
In 2008 they stood at #431 and #635 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #742 and #488.
Violet Compare
In 2008 they stood at #311 and #439 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #419 and #282.

Moved the opposite way to Lilia

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilia went from #1168 to #439 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilia went from #1168 to #439 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilia went from #1168 to #439 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilia went from #1168 to #439 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Lilia

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilia went from #1168 to #439 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilia went from #1168 to #439 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilia went from #1168 to #439 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilia went from #1168 to #439 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #175 in England and Wales in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lilia

Lilia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lilia across 3 official records

Lilia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lilia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Lilia and the names beside it

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Lilia at a glance

Lilia across 3 official records

Lilia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lilia 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 Lilia

Lilia and the names beside it

Lilia moved ahead of

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