Alice or Ava

Ava is the more popular girl name in Canada, #10 to #12 in 2024. Ava is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #11 to #52 in 2025. Ava is the more popular girl name in the USA, #9 to #62 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 Alice against Ava, in that place's most recent complete year.AliceAva#1#50#100#250Canada#12 → #10 ↑2England and Wales#52 → #11 ↑41USA#62 → #9 ↑53Alberta#53 → #6 ↑47British Columbia#40 → #8 ↑32Ontario#43 → #6 ↑37Quebec#5 → #141 ↓136
PlaceYear Alice Ava Ahead
Canada2024#12#10Ava
England and Wales2025#52#11Ava
USA2024#62#9Ava
Alberta2024#53#6Ava
British Columbia2024#40#8Ava
Ontario2024#43#6Ava
Quebec2024#5#141Alice

Alice and Ava in Canada, 2020–2024

Alice slipped from #9 in 2020 to #12 in 2024 in Canada. Ava slipped from #7 in 2020 to #10 in 2024 in Canada. Alice passed Ava in 2023. Ava passed Alice in 2024.

Alice and Ava ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#10 Ava#12 Alice20202021202220232024

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Alice and Ava in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Alice slipped from #27 in 2020 to #52 in 2025 in England and Wales. Ava slipped from #4 in 2020 to #11 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Alice and Ava ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#11 Ava#52 Alice202020212022202320242025

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Alice and Ava in the USA, 2020–2024

Alice climbed from #76 in 2020 to #62 in 2024 in the USA. Ava slipped from #3 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in the USA.

Alice and Ava ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#9 Ava#62 Alice20202021202220232024

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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.