Ava or Elsie
Ava is the more popular girl name in Canada, #10 to #144 in 2024. Elsie is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #8 to #11 in 2025. Ava is the more popular girl name in the USA, #9 to #155 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.
| Place | Year | Ava | Elsie | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #10 | #144 | Ava |
| England and Wales | 2025 | #11 | #8 | Elsie |
| USA | 2024 | #9 | #155 | Ava |
| Alberta | 2024 | #6 | #113 | Ava |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #8 | #160 | Ava |
| Ontario | 2024 | #6 | #187 | Ava |
| Quebec | 2024 | #141 | #255 | Ava |
Ava and Elsie in Canada, 2020–2024
Ava slipped from #7 in 2020 to #10 in 2024 in Canada. Elsie climbed from #180 in 2020 to #144 in 2024 in Canada.
Ava and Elsie in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Ava slipped from #4 in 2020 to #11 in 2025 in England and Wales. Elsie climbed from #19 in 2020 to #8 in 2025 in England and Wales. Elsie passed Ava in 2025.
Ava and Elsie in the USA, 2020–2024
Ava slipped from #3 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in the USA. Elsie climbed from #234 in 2020 to #155 in 2024 in the USA.
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.