Amelia or Ava

Amelia is the more popular girl name in Canada, #4 to #10 in 2024. Amelia is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #3 to #11 in 2025. Amelia is the more popular girl name in the USA, #3 to #9 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 Amelia against Ava, in that place's most recent complete year.AmeliaAva#1#50#100#250Canada#4 → #10 ↓6England and Wales#3 → #11 ↓8USA#3 → #9 ↓6Alberta#3 → #6 ↓3British Columbia#3 → #8 ↓5Ontario#4 → #6 ↓2Quebec#30 → #141 ↓111
PlaceYear Amelia Ava Ahead
Canada2024#4#10Amelia
England and Wales2025#3#11Amelia
USA2024#3#9Amelia
Alberta2024#3#6Amelia
British Columbia2024#3#8Amelia
Ontario2024#4#6Amelia
Quebec2024#30#141Amelia

Amelia and Ava in Canada, 2020–2024

Amelia held #4 every year from 2020 to 2024 in Canada. Ava slipped from #7 in 2020 to #10 in 2024 in Canada.

Amelia and Ava ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#4 Amelia#10 Ava20202021202220232024

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Amelia and Ava in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Amelia slipped from #2 in 2020 to #3 in 2025 in England and Wales. Ava slipped from #4 in 2020 to #11 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Amelia and Ava ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#20#3 Amelia#11 Ava202020212022202320242025

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Amelia and Ava in the USA, 2020–2024

Amelia climbed from #6 in 2020 to #3 in 2024 in the USA. Ava slipped from #3 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in the USA. Amelia passed Ava in 2021.

Amelia and Ava ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#10#3 Amelia#9 Ava20202021202220232024

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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.