Thirty years of Lyla
Lyla in numbers
Lyla is still climbing: from 3 girls in 1996 to 751 in 2025, its highest count so far. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2004 and 2007, from 12 to 225. It ranked 3,795th in 1996 and reached 61st in 2025, its best place so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year+18%634 to 751
- 5 years+45%517 to 751
- 10 years+56%481 to 751
- 20 years+440%139 to 751
- Since 1996×2503 to 751
- Total, 1996 to 20259,671girls
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 61 · ONS · 634 in 2024
Rank 50 · NRS · 62 in 2024
Rank 71 · NISRA · 18 in 2024
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | 751 | +18% | 1 in 379 |
| 2024 | 74 | 634 | +4% | 1 in 457 |
| 2023 | 76 | 610 | -2% | 1 in 472 |
| 2022 | 80 | 620 | -7% | 1 in 476 |
| 2021 | 76 | 667 | +29% | 1 in 457 |
| 2020 | 97 | 517 | -3% | 1 in 579 |
| 2019 | =98 | 531 | -1% | 1 in 586 |
| 2018 | 97 | 539 | -4% | 1 in 593 |
| 2017 | =95 | 563 | +2% | 1 in 588 |
| 2016 | 104 | 553 | +15% | 1 in 613 |
| 2015 | 121 | 481 | -3% | 1 in 706 |
| 2014 | 113 | 497 | +4% | 1 in 681 |
| 2013 * | =114 | 478 | +11% | 1 in 714 |
| 2012 | =132 | 431 | +22% | 1 in 824 |
| 2011 | =152 | 353 | +7% | 1 in 1,000 |
| 2010 | 159 | 330 | +16% | 1 in 1,067 |
| 2009 | 188 | 285 | +19% | 1 in 1,207 |
| 2008 | =213 | 240 | +7% | 1 in 1,441 |
| 2007 | =227 | 225 | +22% | 1 in 1,491 |
| 2006 | 253 | 185 | +33% | 1 in 1,768 |
| 2005 | =303 | 139 | +1,058% | 1 in 2,268 |
| 2004 | =1,715 | 12 | -14% | 1 in 25,948 |
| 2003 | =1,472 | 14 | +250% | 1 in 21,645 |
| 2002 | =3,409 | 4 | -20% | 1 in 72,512 |
| 2001 | =2,783 | 5 | 1 in 57,996 | |
| 2000 | n/a | under 3 | ||
| 1999 | =3,225 | 4 | 1 in 75,652 | |
| 1998 | n/a | under 3 | ||
| 1997 | n/a | under 3 | ||
| 1996 | =3,795 | 3 | 1 in 105,329 |
* ONS’s girls’ 2013 file repeats the May total as April, so the 2013 births total is about 1,360 too high and 1 in X for 2013 is slightly too high. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate
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