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How popular is the name Dilys?
Births per year, rank history and how many Dilyses are alive today.
Dilys (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 3333rd in 2025 and given to 7 babies. The name peaked in 2024, when 13 babies were given the name, the 2116th most popular that year.
The Dilys you are most likely to meet is around 12 years old. Half of all Dilyses born in England and Wales are between 7 and 20, and there are at least 200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Dilys - on average, only one in every 1,575 such rooms contains a Dilys.
How many babies are named Dilys each year?
Where does Dilys rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Dilys most popular?
Dilys peaked in 2024, when 13 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Dilys?
At least 200 people named Dilys born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Dilys?
Most living Dilyses are between 7 and 20; the most common age is about 12.
Is Dilys becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.