Abigail or Charlotte

Charlotte is the more popular girl name in Canada, #2 to #25 in 2024. Charlotte ranks #25 among girl names in England and Wales for 2025, while Abigail does not make that list. Charlotte is the more popular girl name in the USA, #4 to #32 in 2024.

Place by place

Each place ranks its own registered births, so the two names are compared inside one list at a time, in that place's most recent complete year.

Where each place ranks Abigail against Charlotte, in that place's most recent complete year.AbigailCharlotte#1#50#100#250Canada#25 → #2 ↑23USA#32 → #4 ↑28Alberta#14 → #2 ↑12British Columbia#29 → #2 ↑27Ontario#18 → #2 ↑16Quebec#123 → #4 ↑119

Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.

PlaceYear Abigail Charlotte Ahead
Canada2024#25#2Charlotte
England and Wales2025unranked#25Charlotte
USA2024#32#4Charlotte
Alberta2024#14#2Charlotte
British Columbia2024#29#2Charlotte
Ontario2024#18#2Charlotte
Quebec2024#123#4Charlotte

Abigail and Charlotte in Canada, 2020–2024

Abigail slipped from #20 in 2020 to #25 in 2024 in Canada. Charlotte climbed from #3 in 2020 to #2 in 2024 in Canada.

Abigail and Charlotte ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#2 Charlotte#25 Abigail20202021202220232024

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Abigail and Charlotte in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Abigail reached #87 in 2020 in England and Wales. Charlotte slipped from #20 in 2020 to #25 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Abigail and Charlotte ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#25 Charlotte#87 Abigail202020212022202320242025

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Abigail and Charlotte in the USA, 2020–2024

Abigail slipped from #12 in 2020 to #32 in 2024 in the USA. Charlotte stood at #4 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in the USA.

Abigail and Charlotte ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#4 Charlotte#32 Abigail20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

How this comparison is built

Both names are ranked by how many babies were registered with that exact spelling, so every position here counts real births rather than votes or searches. Rank is the only measure every source publishes, so it is what the charts plot; birth counts are not released for every place.

A place appears only in the years it published a complete list, which is why a name can be missing from a year it was almost certainly given to some babies. See every head-to-head on the site, or the ranked lists these names come from.