Ellie or Lily
Lily is the more popular girl name in Canada, #9 to #18 in 2024. Lily ranks #2 among girl names in England and Wales for 2025, while Ellie does not make that list. Ellie is the more popular girl name in the USA, #21 to #24 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.
Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.
| Place | Year | Ellie | Lily | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #18 | #9 | Lily |
| England and Wales | 2025 | unranked | #2 | Lily |
| USA | 2024 | #21 | #24 | Ellie |
| Alberta | 2024 | #11 | #11 | Lily |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #30 | #9 | Lily |
| Ontario | 2024 | #25 | #15 | Lily |
| Quebec | 2024 | #41 | #40 | Lily |
Ellie and Lily in Canada, 2020–2024
Ellie climbed from #22 in 2020 to #18 in 2024 in Canada. Lily climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in Canada.
Ellie and Lily in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Ellie slipped from #67 in 2020 to #88 in 2024 in England and Wales. Lily climbed from #7 in 2020 to #2 in 2025 in England and Wales.
Ellie and Lily in the USA, 2020–2024
Ellie climbed from #29 in 2020 to #21 in 2024 in the USA. Lily climbed from #35 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the USA. Lily passed Ellie in 2022. Ellie passed Lily in 2024.
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.