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How popular is the name Eilidh?
Births per year, rank history and how many Eilidhs are alive today.
Eilidh (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1454th in 2025 and given to 21 babies. The name peaked in 2018, when 45 babies were given the name, the 826th most popular that year. It has declined since 2018; the 2025 figure is roughly 47% of its peak.
The Eilidh you are most likely to meet is around 8 years old. Half of all Eilidhs born in England and Wales are between 8 and 28, and there are at least 1,000 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 Eilidh - on average, only one in every 315 such rooms contains a Eilidh.
How many babies are named Eilidh each year?
Where does Eilidh 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 Eilidh most popular?
Eilidh peaked in 2018, when 45 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Eilidh?
At least 1,000 people named Eilidh born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Eilidh?
Most living Eilidhs are between 8 and 28; the most common age is about 8.
Is Eilidh becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2018 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.