Lily-May

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lily-May: 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-May: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #237 in 2011, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#237highest recorded position
13groupings 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	#1958
1998	#1122
1999	#1473
2000	#1313
2001	#1170
2002	#962
2003	#799
2004	#601
2005	#438
2006	#449
2007	#343
2008	#272
2009	#275
2010	#285
2011	#237
2012	#255
2013	#355
2014	#393
2015	#478
2016	#433
2017	#637
2018	#729
2019	#694
2020	#771
2021	#801
2022	#899
2023	#1135
2024	#1491

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 2022: #747 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #899 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 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
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #237 among girls in England and Wales, in 2011 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Lily-May 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 2,193 births with the name.

Lily-May 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.

Lily-May'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)	#237 (2011)	#1491 (2024)	29 of 29	2,193 (1996–2024)	211 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#742 (2009)	#465 (2011)	#885 (2025)	10 of 17	55 (2009–2025)	9 (2011)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#430 (2010)	#296 (2017)	#296 (2017)	7 of 8	27 (2010–2017)	5 (2014)

Lily-May 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-May in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	46	4 of 10	12
2000s	784	10 of 10	78
2010sbusiest	1,182	10 of 10	118
2020s	181	5 of 10	36

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 118 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births fell by 64, from 192 to 128.

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

Lily-May 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 2025. Highest recorded position: #237 in England and Wales in 2011.

Lily-May'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	#1491	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1135	29	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#899	39	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#801	45	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#771	47	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#694	56	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#729	54	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#637	65	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#433	102	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#478	90	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#393	112	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#355	128	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#255	192	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#237	211	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#285	172	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#275	172	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#272	176	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#343	127	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#449	87	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#438	84	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#601	51	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#799	33	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#962	23	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1170	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1313	14	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1122	18	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#296	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#314	5	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#474	9	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	9	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#510	8	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	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 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #237, first reached in 2011.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 211 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 14 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 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.

Aiza · #236, 27y
Alix · #238, 29y
Erinn · #238, 28y
Johnathon · #238, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Iestyn · #237, 29y
John-James · #237, 18y
Sierra · #237, 27y
Aiza · #236, 27y

Lily-May was ranked #237 in England and Wales · Girls in 2011. 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-May 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-May without appearing here.

Lily-May moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1313 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1170 and #3262.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1914 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1958 and #3824.
Geraldine Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1170 and #1170 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #962 and #2301.
Mona Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1313 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1170 and #2023.

Moved ahead of Lily-May

Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1135 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1491 and #952.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #694 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #771 and #460.
Astrid Compare
In 2021 they stood at #579 and #651 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #747 and #458.
Camilla Compare
In 2021 they stood at #579 and #651 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #747 and #458.

Moved the opposite way to Lily-May

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-May went from #1914 to #1135 while Kristin went from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-May went from #1914 to #1135 while Therese went from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-May went from #1914 to #1135 while Tracey went from #783 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-May went from #1914 to #801 while Carol went from #802 to #3519.

Moved the same way as Lily-May

Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lily-May went from #962 to #1491 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

What's not yet available

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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 2025. Highest recorded position: #237 in England and Wales in 2011. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lily-May

Lily-May at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lily-May across 3 official records

Lily-May by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lily-May appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Lily-May at a glance

Lily-May across 3 official records

Lily-May by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lily-May 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-May

Lily-May and the names beside it

Lily-May moved ahead of

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