Aurora or Sofia

Sofia is the more popular girl name in Canada, #6 to #34 in 2024. Sofia is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #17 to #39 in 2025. Sofia is the more popular girl name in the USA, #10 to #16 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 Aurora against Sofia, in that place's most recent complete year.AuroraSofia#1#100#250#500Canada#34 → #6 ↑28England and Wales#39 → #17 ↑22USA#16 → #10 ↑6Alberta#14 → #22 ↓8British Columbia#22 → #21 ↑1Ontario#24 → #8 ↑16Quebec#291 → #9 ↑282
PlaceYear Aurora Sofia Ahead
Canada2024#34#6Sofia
England and Wales2025#39#17Sofia
USA2024#16#10Sofia
Alberta2024#14#22Aurora
British Columbia2024#22#21Sofia
Ontario2024#24#8Sofia
Quebec2024#291#9Sofia

Aurora and Sofia in Canada, 2020–2024

Aurora climbed from #58 in 2020 to #34 in 2024 in Canada. Sofia climbed from #13 in 2020 to #6 in 2024 in Canada.

Aurora and Sofia ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#6 Sofia#34 Aurora20202021202220232024

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Aurora and Sofia in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Aurora climbed from #64 in 2020 to #39 in 2025 in England and Wales. Sofia climbed from #23 in 2020 to #17 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Aurora and Sofia ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#17 Sofia#39 Aurora202020212022202320242025

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Aurora and Sofia in the USA, 2020–2024

Aurora climbed from #36 in 2020 to #16 in 2024 in the USA. Sofia climbed from #17 in 2020 to #10 in 2024 in the USA.

Aurora and Sofia ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#10 Sofia#16 Aurora20202021202220232024

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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.