Ella or Lily
Lily is the more popular girl name in Canada, #9 to #26 in 2024. Lily is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #2 to #46 in 2025. Lily is the more popular girl name in the USA, #24 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.
| Place | Year | Ella | Lily | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #26 | #9 | Lily |
| England and Wales | 2025 | #46 | #2 | Lily |
| USA | 2024 | #30 | #24 | Lily |
| Alberta | 2024 | #19 | #11 | Lily |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #23 | #9 | Lily |
| Ontario | 2024 | #23 | #15 | Lily |
| Quebec | 2024 | #93 | #40 | Lily |
Ella and Lily in Canada, 2020–2024
Ella slipped from #19 in 2020 to #26 in 2024 in Canada. Lily climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in Canada.
Ella and Lily in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Ella slipped from #16 in 2020 to #46 in 2025 in England and Wales. Lily climbed from #7 in 2020 to #2 in 2025 in England and Wales.
Ella and Lily in the USA, 2020–2024
Ella slipped from #15 in 2020 to #30 in 2024 in the USA. Lily climbed from #35 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the USA. Lily passed Ella in 2023.
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.