Ellie or Mila

Mila is the more popular girl name in Canada, #11 to #18 in 2024. Mila ranks #41 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 #33 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 Mila, in that place's most recent complete year.EllieMila#1#10#25#50Canada#18 → #11 ↑7USA#21 → #33 ↓12Alberta#11 → #31 ↓20British Columbia#30 → #20 ↑10Ontario#25 → #21 ↑4Quebec#41 → #12 ↑29

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 Mila Ahead
Canada2024#18#11Mila
England and Wales2025unranked#41Mila
USA2024#21#33Ellie
Alberta2024#11#31Ellie
British Columbia2024#30#20Mila
Ontario2024#25#21Mila
Quebec2024#41#12Mila

Ellie and Mila in Canada, 2020–2024

Ellie climbed from #22 in 2020 to #18 in 2024 in Canada. Mila slipped from #10 in 2020 to #11 in 2024 in Canada.

Ellie and Mila ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#11 Mila#18 Ellie20202021202220232024

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Ellie and Mila in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Ellie slipped from #67 in 2020 to #88 in 2024 in England and Wales. Mila climbed from #47 in 2020 to #41 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Ellie and Mila ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#41 Mila#88 Ellie202020212022202320242025

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Ellie and Mila in the USA, 2020–2024

Ellie climbed from #29 in 2020 to #21 in 2024 in the USA. Mila slipped from #20 in 2020 to #33 in 2024 in the USA. Ellie passed Mila in 2023.

Ellie and Mila ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#21 Ellie#33 Mila20202021202220232024

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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.