Lilli

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Lilli: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 13 years, it reached #182 in 2016, and it stood at #283 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
87times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#182highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Lilli's record

Absent from every published list for 13 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1222
1997	#1045
1998	#955
1999	#641
2000	#655
2001	#642
2002	#547
2003	#494
2004	#359
2005	#432
2006	#526
2007	#425
2008	#445
2009	#576
2010	#655
2011	#534
2012	#975
2013	#1253
2014	#1204
2015	#1711
2016	#2120
2017	#2341
2018	#2340
2019	#1854
2020	#1846
2021	#3192
2022	#2325
2023	#2504
2024	#2411

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 48 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #188 among girls in Norway, #2411 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #347 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #182 among girls in Norway, in 2016 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #283 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Lilli appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 48 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 585 births with the name.

Lilli across 4 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.

Lilli'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
Norway · Girls	#347 (1945)	#182 (2016)	#283 (2025)	48 of 81	585 (1945–2025)	32 (2016)
England and Wales · Girls	#1222 (1996)	#359 (2004)	#2411 (2024)	29 of 29	1,158 (1996–2024)	106 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#764 (2006)	#663 (2010)	#716 (2019)	7 of 14	27 (2006–2019)	5 (2010)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#372 (2004)	#372 (2004)	#440 (2013)	3 of 10	9 (2004–2013)	3 (2004)

Lilli by decade in Norway · 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 Lilli in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	21	4 of 10	5
1950s	59	9 of 10	7
1960s	15	3 of 10	5
1970s	5	1 of 10	5
1980s	9	2 of 10	5
1990s	18	4 of 10	5
2000s	113	9 of 10	13
2010sbusiest	229	10 of 10	23
2020s	116	6 of 10	19

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 23 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Lilli 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 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #182 in Norway in 2016.

Lilli'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	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1846	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1854	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2340	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2120	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1711	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1204	28	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1253	27	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#975	37	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#534	78	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#576	66	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#445	95	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#425	97	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#526	69	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#432	86	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#359	106	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#494	65	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#547	54	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#642	40	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#655	38	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#641	38	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#955	22	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1045	19	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1222	15	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#283	14	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#188	25	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#255	16	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#190	23	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#278	13	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#191	25	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#258	17	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#238	19	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#233	22	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#182	32	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#191	29	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#207	28	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#321	15	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#209	27	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#246	22	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#280	18	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#222	25	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#345	13	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#242	22	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#335	13	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#437	8	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#332	13	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#603	4	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#418	8	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#458	7	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#512	6	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#641	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#651	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#657	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#626	5	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#657	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#544	5	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#478	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#431	6	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#490	4	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#390	6	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#317	9	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#350	7	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#407	5	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#407	5	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#352	7	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#335	8	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#323	7	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#371	5	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#347	6	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#380	5	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#378	5	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#347	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 52 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #182, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 106 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

Its record falls into 11 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 13 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 61 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.

Lilla · #798, 21y
Lillah · #873, 9y
Lillia · #419, 25y
Lilliah · #2392, 13y

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.

Patrycja · #180, 47y
Iain · #186, 53y
Juliet · #178, 55y
Kamila · #176, 50y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Brede · #181, 79y
Eivor · #181, 56y
Gunnlaug · #181, 21y
Kjellfrid · #183, 22y

Lilli was ranked #182 in Norway · Girls in 2016. 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.

Lilli 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 Lilli without appearing here.

Lilli moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2340 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1854 and #5591.
Carmel Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2341 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2340 and #4684.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2341 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2340 and #4684.
Karen Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3192 and #3192 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2325 and #4645.

Moved ahead of Lilli

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1846 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1286.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1846 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1785.
Jude Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1846 and #2300 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #2073.
Rory Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1846 and #1939 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #2201.

Moved the opposite way to Lilli

Elizabeth Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Lilli went from #347 to #188 while Elizabeth went from #341 to #484.
Tone Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Lilli went from #347 to #188 while Tone went from #56 to #518.
Grete Compare
Between 1945 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Lilli went from #347 to #190 while Grete went from #28 to #484.
Kate Compare
Between 1945 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Lilli went from #347 to #190 while Kate went from #233 to #490.

Moved the same way as Lilli

Maya Compare
Between 1961 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Lilli went from #490 to #283 and Maya from #497 to #86.
Olivia Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Lilli went from #478 to #283 and Olivia from #488 to #2.
Gerd Compare
Between 1945 and 2003 in Norway · Girls, Lilli went from #347 to #603 and Gerd from #9 to #545.
Lara Compare
Between 1970 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Lilli went from #544 to #283 and Lara from #541 to #144.

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 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #182 in Norway in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lilli

Lilli at a glance

What stands out in Lilli's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lilli across 4 official records

Lilli by decade in Norway · Girls

Lilli appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Lilli

Lilli and the names beside it

Lilli moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lilli

Moved the opposite way to Lilli

Moved the same way as Lilli

Lilli at a glance

What stands out in Lilli's record

Lilli across 4 official records

Lilli by decade in Norway · Girls

Lilli appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Lilli

Lilli and the names beside it

Lilli moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lilli

Moved the opposite way to Lilli

Moved the same way as Lilli