Overview

• Lily topped the floral name rankings with 2,280 registrations in 2024 despite a 13.3% drop from the previous year
• Ivy held second place with 2,185 babies named in 2024—a 2.3% decline—while Florence ranked third at 1,956
• Poppy (1,925) and Willow (1,626) completed the top five, with Willow down from nearly 2,000 registrations in 2023
• The study published both a Top 10 list of popular floral names and a separate roster of the UK’s rarest floral-inspired baby names
• Unspecified new figures cited in the analysis indicate that nearly 60% of parents now prefer giving their child a name that feels ‘uncommon’