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How popular is the name Lillie?
Births per year, rank history and how many Lillies are alive today.
Lillie (female), a spelling of Lily, sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 227th in 2025 with 205 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2011, when 515 babies were given the name, the 112th most popular that year. It has declined since 2011; the 2025 figure is roughly 40% of its peak. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 8,100 babies have been named Lillie in England and Wales since 1996. Common short forms of Lillie include Lily and Lili. Lillie is also a common short form of Lilian, so many people called Lillie are registered under the longer name.
Across all spellings of the name, the Lily you are most likely to meet is around 15 years old. Half of all Lilies born in England and Wales are between 11 and 24, and there are at least 130,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 34% chance that at least one of them will be called Lily.
How many babies are named Lillie each year?
Includes all spellings: Lillie, Lili, Lilly, Lily. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Lillie spelling rank?
Where does the Lili spelling rank?
Where does the Lilly spelling rank?
Where does the Lily spelling rank?
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 Lillie most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Lily, peaked in 2011, when 7,319 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Lillie spelling itself peaked in 2011, with 515 babies.
How many people are called Lillie?
At least 130,000 people named Lillie in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Lillie?
Most living Lillies are between 11 and 24; the most common age is about 15.
Is Lillie becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2011 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.