Ella or Evelyn

Evelyn is the more popular girl name in Canada, #15 to #26 in 2024. Evelyn is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #12 to #46 in 2025. Evelyn is the more popular girl name in the USA, #8 to #30 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 Ella against Evelyn, in that place's most recent complete year.EllaEvelyn#1#50#100#250Canada#26 → #15 ↑11England and Wales#46 → #12 ↑34USA#30 → #8 ↑22Alberta#19 → #11 ↑8British Columbia#23 → #10 ↑13Ontario#23 → #12 ↑11Quebec#93 → #180 ↓87
PlaceYear Ella Evelyn Ahead
Canada2024#26#15Evelyn
England and Wales2025#46#12Evelyn
USA2024#30#8Evelyn
Alberta2024#19#11Evelyn
British Columbia2024#23#10Evelyn
Ontario2024#23#12Evelyn
Quebec2024#93#180Ella

Ella and Evelyn in Canada, 2020–2024

Ella slipped from #19 in 2020 to #26 in 2024 in Canada. Evelyn climbed from #16 in 2020 to #15 in 2024 in Canada. Ella passed Evelyn in 2021. Evelyn passed Ella in 2022.

Ella and Evelyn ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#15 Evelyn#26 Ella20202021202220232024

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Ella and Evelyn in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Ella slipped from #16 in 2020 to #46 in 2025 in England and Wales. Evelyn climbed from #21 in 2020 to #12 in 2025 in England and Wales. Evelyn passed Ella in 2022.

Ella and Evelyn ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#12 Evelyn#46 Ella202020212022202320242025

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Ella and Evelyn in the USA, 2020–2024

Ella slipped from #15 in 2020 to #30 in 2024 in the USA. Evelyn climbed from #9 in 2020 to #8 in 2024 in the USA.

Ella and Evelyn ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#8 Evelyn#30 Ella20202021202220232024

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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.