Lily-Anne

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Lily-Anne: Recorded since 1996, it reached #370 in 2013, and it stood at #2,574 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#370highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#3824
1999	#3900
2000	#3247
2001	#1870
2003	#2191
2004	#1312
2005	#1589
2006	#1585
2007	#1073
2008	#916
2009	#1209
2010	#1389
2011	#1067
2012	#1058
2013	#1324
2014	#1234
2015	#1601
2016	#1834
2017	#1995
2018	#2499
2019	#2040
2020	#2615
2021	#2711
2022	#2325
2023	#2927
2024	#2574

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 England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2021: #883 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2711 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2350 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 recorded2012–2013
Highest recorded position: #370 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2013 (recorded 2012–2013).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Lily-Anne appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 424 births with the name.

Lily-Anne 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.

Lily-Anne'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	#2350 (1996)	#916 (2008)	#2574 (2024)	27 of 29	424 (1996–2024)	35 (2008)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#451 (2012)	#370 (2013)	#370 (2013)	2 of 2	7 (2012–2013)	4 (2013)

Lily-Anne 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 Lily-Anne in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	12	3 of 10	4
2000s	154	9 of 10	17
2010sbusiest	211	10 of 10	21
2020s	47	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 21 births a year.

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

Lily-Anne 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #370 in Northern Ireland in 2013.

Lily-Anne'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	#2574	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1834	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1601	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1234	27	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1324	25	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1058	33	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1067	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1389	22	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1209	25	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#916	35	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1073	27	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1585	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1589	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #370, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 35 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 25 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.

Lily-Ann · #426, 30y
Lily-Anna · #418, 18y
Lily-Grace · #407, 23y
Lily-Jane · #2338, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Elana · #370, 29y
Ephraim · #370, 30y
Jazmine · #370, 29y
Gino · #369, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aime · #370, 17y
Cassidy · #370, 30y
Elana · #370, 29y
Ephraim · #370, 30y

Lily-Anne was ranked #370 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2013. 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.

Lily-Anne 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 Lily-Anne without appearing here.

Lily-Anne moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2499 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2040 and #5591.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #5581.
Cameron Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #4843.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1995 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2499 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Lily-Anne

Audrey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2350 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #3824 and #1666.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2040 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #1313.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1995 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2499 and #1436.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #1785.

Moved the opposite way to Lily-Anne

Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-Anne went from #1312 to #2574 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.
Martine Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-Anne went from #2350 to #1067 while Martine went from #2350 to #4764.
Rory Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-Anne went from #1389 to #2574 while Rory went from #5707 to #1603.
Fiadh Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-Anne went from #1324 to #2574 while Fiadh went from #5742 to #374.

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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #370 in Northern Ireland in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lily-Anne

Lily-Anne at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lily-Anne across 2 official records

Lily-Anne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lily-Anne appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lily-Anne

Lily-Anne and the names beside it

Lily-Anne moved ahead of

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Lily-Anne at a glance

Lily-Anne across 2 official records

Lily-Anne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lily-Anne 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 Lily-Anne

Lily-Anne and the names beside it

Lily-Anne moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lily-Anne

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