Tilly-Rae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- TIL-ee-RAY
- Origin
- Germanic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Tilly-Rae is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “mighty in battle + ewe”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Tilly-Rae mean?
Germanic: Tilly + Rae
“mighty in battle + ewe”
Joins Tilly (Germanic, “mighty in battle”) and Rae (Hebrew, “ewe”).
Meanings borrowed from Tilly and Rae.
Is Tilly-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?
Tilly-Rae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tilly-Rae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Tilly-Rae, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Tilly-Rae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Tilly-Rae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 1 | #7,717 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
Names like Tilly-Rae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Elodie, Ottilie, Lottie, Matilda, Elsie, Evelyn, Ada, Heidi, Hattie, Florence, Adeline, Delilah
More Germanic names
Amelia, Liam, Henry, Charlotte, William, Archie, Charlie, Emma, Freddie, Ella, Harry, Millie, Albie, Louie, Miles, Alice
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, “Tilly-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tilly-rae, updated 20 October 2026.