Ellie or Evelyn

Evelyn is the more popular girl name in Canada, #15 to #18 in 2024. Evelyn ranks #12 among girl names in England and Wales for 2025, while Ellie does not make that list. Evelyn is the more popular girl name in the USA, #8 to #21 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 Ellie against Evelyn, in that place's most recent complete year.EllieEvelyn#1#50#100#250Canada#18 → #15 ↑3USA#21 → #8 ↑13Alberta#11 in bothBritish Columbia#30 → #10 ↑20Ontario#25 → #12 ↑13Quebec#41 → #180 ↓139

Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.

PlaceYear Ellie Evelyn Ahead
Canada2024#18#15Evelyn
England and Wales2025unranked#12Evelyn
USA2024#21#8Evelyn
Alberta2024#11#11Evelyn
British Columbia2024#30#10Evelyn
Ontario2024#25#12Evelyn
Quebec2024#41#180Ellie

Ellie and Evelyn in Canada, 2020–2024

Ellie climbed from #22 in 2020 to #18 in 2024 in Canada. Evelyn climbed from #16 in 2020 to #15 in 2024 in Canada. Ellie passed Evelyn in 2023. Evelyn passed Ellie in 2024.

Ellie and Evelyn ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#15 Evelyn#18 Ellie20202021202220232024

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Ellie and Evelyn in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Ellie slipped from #67 in 2020 to #88 in 2024 in England and Wales. Evelyn climbed from #21 in 2020 to #12 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Ellie and Evelyn ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#12 Evelyn#88 Ellie202020212022202320242025

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Ellie and Evelyn in the USA, 2020–2024

Ellie climbed from #29 in 2020 to #21 in 2024 in the USA. Evelyn climbed from #9 in 2020 to #8 in 2024 in the USA.

Ellie and Evelyn ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#8 Evelyn#21 Ellie20202021202220232024

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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.