Tilly

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Tilly: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #86 in 2009, and it stood at #239 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
70times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#86highest 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	#335
1997	#300
1998	#281
1999	#213
2000	#218
2001	#249
2002	#179
2003	#118
2004	#104
2005	#95
2006	#96
2007	#97
2008	#93
2009	#86
2010	#88
2011	#103
2012	#92
2013	#86
2014	#110
2015	#128
2016	#140
2017	#138
2018	#163
2019	#156
2020	#153
2021	#162
2022	#146
2023	#165
2024	#165

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 2024: #152 among girls in Scotland, #165 among girls in England and Wales, #179 among girls in Northern Ireland, #223 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #335 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: #86 among girls in England and Wales, in 2009 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #239 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Tilly 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 11,517 births with the name.

Tilly 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.

Tilly'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	#335 (1996)	#86 (2009)	#165 (2024)	29 of 29	11,517 (1996–2024)	703 (2009)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#523 (2005)	#154 (2022)	#239 (2025)	20 of 21	278 (2005–2025)	34 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#265 (2006)	#99 (2014)	#179 (2024)	19 of 19	284 (2006–2024)	24 (2014)

Tilly 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 Tilly in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	555	4 of 10	139
2000s	4,477	10 of 10	448
2010sbusiest	4,894	10 of 10	489
2020s	1,591	5 of 10	318

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 489 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2002 and 2003, when recorded births rose by 173, from 241 to 414.

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

Tilly 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 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #86 in England and Wales in 2013.

Tilly'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	#165	307	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#165	309	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#146	334	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#162	315	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#153	326	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#156	320	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#163	330	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#138	388	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#140	403	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#128	449	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#110	517	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#86	627	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#92	610	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#103	573	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#88	677	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#86	703	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#93	611	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#97	554	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#96	539	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#95	557	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#104	506	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#118	414	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#179	241	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#249	159	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#218	193	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#213	194	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#281	135	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#300	121	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#335	105	High	Verified
2023	New Zealand	female	#91	44	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#179	10	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#135	15	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#114	19	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#131	18	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#134	15	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#157	13	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#126	19	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#154	14	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#151	15	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#123	19	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#99	24	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#112	20	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#129	17	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#207	9	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#116	21	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#123	18	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#311	5	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#245	7	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#265	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#239	18	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#223	19	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#202	22	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#154	34	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#198	24	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#275	15	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#221	22	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#228	21	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#341	12	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#273	17	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#378	12	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#427	10	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#491	8	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#371	13	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	7	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#488	8	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#152	28	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
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 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #86, first reached in 2009.

It held a top-100 place in 10 years, 6 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 703 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 28 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.

Tillie-Mae · #1893, 20y
Tillie-Rose · #2464, 14y
Tilly-Mae · #900, 22y
Tilly-Mai · #2176, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 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.

Kye · #87, 29y
Enzo · #88, 30y
Hope · #88, 33y
Koby · #84, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Robbie · #86, 32y
Iarlaith · #85, 24y
Jai · #87, 30y
Kye · #87, 29y

Tilly was ranked #86 in England and Wales · Girls in 2009. 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.

Tilly 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 Tilly without appearing here.

Tilly moved ahead of

Jude Compare
In 2011 they stood at #764 and #502 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #371 and #907.
Renee Compare
In 2011 they stood at #695 and #695 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #371 and #907.
Wendy Compare
In 2011 they stood at #862 and #862 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #371 and #907.
Elaine Compare
In 2014 they stood at #491 and #491 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #378 and #896.

Moved ahead of Tilly

Layla Compare
In 2010 they stood at #116 and #120 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2011 that had become #207 and #135.
Croía Compare
In 2018 they stood at #228 and #255 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2019 that had become #221 and #162.
Maeve Compare
In 2019 they stood at #156 and #218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #153 and #94.
Florence Compare
In 2018 they stood at #126 and #179 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2019 that had become #157 and #107.

Moved the opposite way to Tilly

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tilly went from #335 to #165 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tilly went from #335 to #165 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tilly went from #335 to #165 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tilly went from #335 to #165 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Tilly

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tilly went from #335 to #165 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tilly went from #335 to #165 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tilly went from #335 to #165 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tilly went from #335 to #165 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #86 in England and Wales in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Tilly

Tilly at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tilly across 3 official records

Tilly by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Tilly appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Tilly and the names beside it

Tilly moved ahead of

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Tilly at a glance

Tilly across 3 official records

Tilly by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Tilly 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 Tilly

Tilly and the names beside it

Tilly moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Tilly

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