Lylah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Lylah: Recorded since 2002, its highest recorded position is #275, and it stood at #483 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#275highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#4137
2005	#4798
2006	#5061
2007	#4294
2008	#1584
2009	#1526
2010	#1040
2011	#1117
2012	#1058
2013	#1148
2014	#750
2015	#1007
2016	#822
2017	#666
2018	#755
2019	#670
2020	#735
2021	#496
2022	#518
2023	#592
2024	#539

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 21 of the 23 years from 2002 to 2024.

In 2024: #275 among girls in Scotland, #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, #504 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #539 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2002–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2002
First recorded at #4137 among girls in England and Wales in 2002 — 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

Lylah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 2002, and has registered 825 births with the name.

Lylah 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.

Lylah'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	#4137 (2002)	#496 (2021)	#539 (2024)	21 of 23	825 (2002–2024)	85 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#734 (2018)	#483 (2025)	#483 (2025)	7 of 8	33 (2018–2025)	7 (2024)

Lylah 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 Lylah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	48	6 of 10	8
2010s	430	10 of 10	43
2020sbusiest	347	5 of 10	69

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 69 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 35, from 50 to 85.

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

Lylah 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 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #275 in Scotland in 2024.

Lylah'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	#539	72	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#592	64	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#518	76	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#496	85	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#735	50	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#670	58	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#755	52	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#666	62	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#822	46	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1007	35	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#750	52	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1148	30	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1058	33	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1117	30	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1040	32	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1526	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#504	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	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 2002 and 2025, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #275, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 85 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 22 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.

Lyla-Rae · #1351, 13y
Lyla-Rose · #865, 20y
Lylah-Rose · #2615, 12y
Lyle · #148, 29y

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
Aarav · #276, 22y
Orrin · #277, 25y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Hoorain · #275, 16y
Aarav · #276, 22y
Vilte · #276, 18y
Aibhlinn · #273, 13y

Lylah 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.

Lylah 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 Lylah without appearing here.

Lylah moved ahead of

Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4294 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1040 and #5707.
Francis Compare
In 2008 they stood at #5061 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1526 and #5556.
Debra Compare
In 2007 they stood at #5061 and #4157 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1584 and #5545.
Dianne Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4294 and #4294 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1584 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Lylah

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #670 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #735 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1007 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #822 and #768.

Moved the opposite way to Lylah

Abigail Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lylah went from #4137 to #539 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lylah went from #4137 to #539 while Aimee went from #65 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lylah went from #4137 to #539 while Aisling went from #513 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lylah went from #4137 to #539 while Alex went from #233 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Lylah

Ada Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lylah went from #4137 to #539 and Ada from #2301 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lylah went from #4137 to #539 and Alma from #2105 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lylah went from #4137 to #539 and Amelia from #25 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lylah went from #4137 to #539 and Aria from #2540 to #35.

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 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #275 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lylah

Lylah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lylah across 2 official records

Lylah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Lylah at a glance

Lylah across 2 official records

Lylah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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