Lily-Mai

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lily-Mai: 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-Mai: Recorded since 1997, it reached #440 in 2016, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#440highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
2001	#3998
2002	#4137
2003	#2727
2004	#985
2005	#1343
2006	#869
2007	#666
2008	#650
2009	#522
2010	#480
2011	#447
2012	#529
2013	#712
2014	#645
2015	#984
2016	#1278
2017	#1082
2018	#1436
2019	#1439
2020	#2042
2021	#2073
2022	#3148
2023	#3598
2024	#4843

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 25 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2016: #440 among girls in Northern Ireland, #1278 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3824 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Lily-Mai appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 835 births with the name.

Lily-Mai 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-Mai'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	#3824 (1997)	#447 (2011)	#4843 (2024)	25 of 28	835 (1997–2024)	95 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#862 (2008)	#747 (2013)	#896 (2015)	7 of 8	24 (2008–2015)	4 (2012)

Lily-Mai 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-Mai in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	274	9 of 10	30
2010sbusiest	515	10 of 10	52
2020s	43	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 52 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2014 and 2015, when recorded births fell by 26, from 62 to 36.

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

Lily-Mai 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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #440 in Northern Ireland in 2016.

Lily-Mai'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	#4843	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2042	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1439	21	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1436	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1082	32	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1278	26	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#984	36	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#645	62	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#712	56	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#529	80	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#447	95	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#480	85	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#522	77	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#650	57	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#666	52	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#869	34	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1343	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#985	25	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	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 1997 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #440, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 95 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 19 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-Louise · #2717, 14y
Lily-Mae · #186, 29y
Lily-Marie · #695, 20y
Lily-May · #237, 30y

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.

Annaliese · #440, 29y
Cassia · #440, 29y
Daniele · #440, 30y
Kaitlynn · #440, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abbie-Rose · #440, 10y
Aleyna · #440, 29y
Annaliese · #440, 29y
Cassia · #440, 29y

Lily-Mai was ranked #440 in Northern Ireland · 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.

Lily-Mai 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-Mai without appearing here.

Lily-Mai moved ahead of

Jeanette Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2727 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #985 and #3725.
Lene Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3998 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #985 and #3725.
Rian Compare
In 2003 they stood at #4137 and #3409 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #985 and #3725.
Evan Compare
In 2005 they stood at #4137 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #869 and #3548.

Moved ahead of Lily-Mai

Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3148 and #1452.
Cooper Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #3695.
Noah Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3148 and #2058.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1439 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Lily-Mai

Carol Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-Mai went from #3824 to #2073 while Carol went from #897 to #3519.
Karin Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-Mai went from #3824 to #2073 while Karin went from #1802 to #3192.
Tyler Compare
Between 1997 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-Mai went from #3824 to #2073 while Tyler went from #242 to #5581.
Finlay Compare
Between 1997 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-Mai went from #3824 to #1436 while Finlay went from #1234 to #4684.

Moved the same way as Lily-Mai

Hayden Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-Mai went from #1343 to #4843 and Hayden from #3970 to #5891.

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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #440 in Northern Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lily-Mai

Lily-Mai at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lily-Mai across 2 official records

Lily-Mai by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Lily-Mai at a glance

Lily-Mai across 2 official records

Lily-Mai by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lily-Mai

Lily-Mai and the names beside it

Lily-Mai moved ahead of

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