Lilith

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Lilith: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #275, and it stood at #483 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#275highest recorded position
9groupings 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	#1914
1997	#2738
1998	#1571
1999	#2444
2000	#1594
2001	#2783
2002	#2540
2003	#1843
2004	#1715
2005	#1343
2006	#3116
2007	#1854
2008	#1815
2009	#1909
2010	#1731
2011	#1117
2012	#1297
2013	#1324
2014	#1005
2015	#965
2016	#852
2017	#870
2018	#806
2019	#749
2020	#505
2021	#555
2022	#476
2023	#363
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: #275 among girls in Scotland, #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, #439 among girls in England and Wales, #736 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 #1914 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 recent2025
Most recently recorded at #483 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Lilith 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 943 births with the name.

Lilith 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.

Lilith'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	#1914 (1996)	#363 (2023)	#439 (2024)	29 of 29	943 (1996–2024)	115 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#896 (2018)	#483 (2025)	#483 (2025)	8 of 8	32 (2018–2025)	7 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#397 (2020)	#288 (2024)	#288 (2024)	2 of 5	8 (2020–2024)	5 (2024)

Lilith 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 Lilith in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	30	4 of 10	8
2000s	107	10 of 10	11
2010s	355	10 of 10	36
2020sbusiest	451	5 of 10	90

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 90 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births rose by 29, from 51 to 80.

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

Lilith 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: #275 in Scotland in 2024.

Lilith'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	#363	115	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#476	87	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#555	72	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#505	80	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#749	51	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#806	47	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#870	44	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#852	44	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#965	37	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1005	36	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1324	25	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1297	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1117	30	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1731	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1343	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1715	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1594	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1571	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#288	5	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#275	13	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 #275, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 115 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, 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.

Lilie · #937, 20y
Lilien · #612, 15y
Liliwen · #2178, 11y
Liliya · #2115, 19y

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.

Dahlia · #275, 27y
Juno · #275, 27y
Nathanael · #277, 30y
Orrin · #277, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Dahlia · #275, 27y
Juno · #275, 27y
Micheala · #275, 21y
Sahil · #275, 29y

Lilith was ranked #275 in Scotland · Girls 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.

Lilith 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 Lilith without appearing here.

Lilith moved ahead of

Jesse Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1909 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1731 and #4688.
Carol Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3116 and #3116 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1854 and #4294.
Jordan Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1909 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1731 and #4012.
Pauline Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1815 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1909 and #3936.

Moved ahead of Lilith

Alma Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1343 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #3116 and #1087.
Ada Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1594 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2783 and #1520.
Audrey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1914 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #2738 and #1666.
Ida Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1594 and #2167 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2783 and #1728.

Moved the opposite way to Lilith

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilith went from #1914 to #439 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilith went from #1914 to #439 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilith went from #1914 to #439 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilith went from #1914 to #439 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Lilith

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilith went from #1914 to #439 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilith went from #1914 to #439 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilith went from #1914 to #439 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lilith went from #1914 to #439 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #275 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lilith

Lilith at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lilith across 3 official records

Lilith by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Lilith at a glance

Lilith across 3 official records

Lilith by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lilith appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lilith

Lilith and the names beside it

Lilith moved ahead of

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