Lily
2.19k
Babies in 2024
-26%
10-year change
2011
Peak · 4.77k
-5%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Lily
Lily is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #3 for girls born in 2024 with 2,185 babies registered in England & Wales.
Lily reached its peak in 2011, when 4,769 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #3 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 2,185 represents 46% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 72,956 girls have been officially registered with the name Lily in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 26,370 girls were registered with the name, starting from 2,969 in 2014 and ending at 2,185 in 2024.