Lily-Rae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LIL-ee-RAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Lily-Rae is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Lily-Rae mean?
Modern: combination of Lily and Rae
Joins the flower name Lily with Rae, a short form of Rachel.
Is Lily-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?
Lily-Rae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lily-Rae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 39% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Lily-Rae, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,864th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 25 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Lily-Rae than any year since 2008.
Half of all the girls named Lily-Rae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Lily-Rae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Lily-Rae 8
- Lillie-Rae 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Lily-Rae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,480 |
| 2023 | 11 | #2,481 |
| 2022 | 13 | #2,157 |
| 2021 | 15 | #1,981 |
| 2020 | 16 | #1,864 |
| 2019 | 14 | #2,052 |
| 2018 | 19 | #1,678 |
| 2017 | 12 | #2,336 |
| 2016 | 20 | #1,653 |
| 2015 | 13 | #2,186 |
| 2014 | 15 | #1,976 |
| 2013 | 14 | #2,061 |
| 2012 | 25 | #1,384 |
| 2011 | 20 | #1,570 |
| 2010 | 11 | #2,379 |
| 2009 | 13 | #2,037 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 2007 | 9 | #2,543 |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
Nicknames for Lily-Rae
- Lily 2,538 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Lily-Rae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lottie, Elsie, Myla, Lyla, Violet, Beatrice, Elodie, Phoebe, Evelyn, Lyra, Eliza, Matilda
Other spellings of Lily-Rae
Names related to Lily-Rae
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Lily-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lily-rae, updated 20 October 2026.