Lily-May
#1,809 in England and Wales in 2025
Where Lily-May stands
#1,809girls’ names · E&W 2025
Lily-May was the 1,809th most registered girls' name in England and Wales in 2025, on 16 births.
Its moment was 2019, when 56 babies were given it.
SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How Lily-May's figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
- A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Lily-May was under the floor in no year of its E&W record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000 reporting floor (share) = 3 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
Lily-May in the United States
Between 2019 and 2025 the name has been falling — down 68% as a share of girls' births.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Lily-May in New Zealand
Lily-May never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Lily-May in England & Wales
In England and Wales, Lily-May was registered 253 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2019 with 56 births. It ranked #1,809 for girls in 2025 on 16 births. Across those years it has been falling.
Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.
SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about Lily-May
How popular is the name Lily-May?
Lily-May ranked #1,809 for girls in England and Wales in 2025, on 16 births registered with the Office for National Statistics.
When was Lily-May most popular?
Lily-May peaked in 2019, when 56 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
Is Lily-May rising or falling?
Measured as a share of all girls' births, Lily-May has been falling between 2019 and 2025 (-68%).
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026
