Alice or Maya

Alice is the more popular girl name in Canada, #12 to #16 in 2024. Maya is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #28 to #52 in 2025. Maya is the more popular girl name in the USA, #51 to #62 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

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 Maya, in that place's most recent complete year.AliceMaya#1#25#50#100Canada#12 → #16 ↓4England and Wales#52 → #28 ↑24USA#62 → #51 ↑11Alberta#53 → #34 ↑19British Columbia#40 → #11 ↑29Ontario#43 → #7 ↑36Quebec#5 → #53 ↓48
PlaceYear Alice Maya Ahead
Canada2024#12#16Alice
England and Wales2025#52#28Maya
USA2024#62#51Maya
Alberta2024#53#34Maya
British Columbia2024#40#11Maya
Ontario2024#43#7Maya
Quebec2024#5#53Alice

Alice and Maya in Canada, 2020–2024

Alice slipped from #9 in 2020 to #12 in 2024 in Canada. Maya climbed from #27 in 2020 to #16 in 2024 in Canada.

Alice and Maya ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#12 Alice#16 Maya20202021202220232024

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Alice and Maya in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Alice slipped from #27 in 2020 to #52 in 2025 in England and Wales. Maya climbed from #32 in 2020 to #28 in 2025 in England and Wales. Maya passed Alice in 2021.

Alice and Maya ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#28 Maya#52 Alice202020212022202320242025

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Alice and Maya in the USA, 2020–2024

Alice climbed from #76 in 2020 to #62 in 2024 in the USA. Maya climbed from #61 in 2020 to #51 in 2024 in the USA.

Alice and Maya ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#51 Maya#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.