Ellie or Hazel

Ellie is the more popular girl name in Canada, #18 to #27 in 2024. Hazel ranks #71 among girl names in England and Wales for 2025, while Ellie does not make that list. Hazel is the more popular girl name in the USA, #19 to #21 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.

Where each place ranks Ellie against Hazel, in that place's most recent complete year.EllieHazel#1#100#250#500Canada#18 → #27 ↓9USA#21 → #19 ↑2Alberta#11 → #9 ↑2British Columbia#30 → #13 ↑17Ontario#25 → #26 ↓1Quebec#41 → #347 ↓306

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 Hazel Ahead
Canada2024#18#27Ellie
England and Wales2025unranked#71Hazel
USA2024#21#19Hazel
Alberta2024#11#9Hazel
British Columbia2024#30#13Hazel
Ontario2024#25#26Ellie
Quebec2024#41#347Ellie

Ellie and Hazel in Canada, 2020–2024

Ellie climbed from #22 in 2020 to #18 in 2024 in Canada. Hazel climbed from #45 in 2020 to #27 in 2024 in Canada.

Ellie and Hazel ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#18 Ellie#27 Hazel20202021202220232024

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Ellie and Hazel in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Ellie slipped from #67 in 2020 to #88 in 2024 in England and Wales. Hazel climbed from #91 in 2023 to #71 in 2025 in England and Wales. Hazel passed Ellie in 2024.

Ellie and Hazel ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#71 Hazel#88 Ellie202020212022202320242025

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Ellie and Hazel in the USA, 2020–2024

Ellie climbed from #29 in 2020 to #21 in 2024 in the USA. Hazel climbed from #31 in 2020 to #19 in 2024 in the USA. Hazel passed Ellie in 2021.

Ellie and Hazel ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#19 Hazel#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.