girl's name

Eily

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 4
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 547

Northern Ireland

#451

2024 births

Eily is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 14 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2013, when 26 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 236,855 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1998.

Eily over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1990s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

213
'90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Eily by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1990s 6
2000s 107
2010s 213
2020s (to 2025) 112

How popular is Eily?

In 2025, Eily was given to 14 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Eily is used

Northern Ireland #451 3 in 2024
Ireland #690 5 in 2024
France #2,140 20 in 2025
England & Wales #7,002 3 in 2024
United States #7,663 14 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Eily is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Eïly Eïly is a rare spelling of Eily, written with a diaeresis and recorded about 30 times, mostly in France. 30

Names that peaked alongside Eily

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Eily also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Eily over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Eily

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Eily — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Eily

How popular is the name Eily?

In 2025, Eily was given to 14 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Eily a girl's or a boy's name?

Eily is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Eily most popular?

Eily peaked in 2013, when 26 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Eily a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Eily currently ranks #451 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.