Ellie or Nora

Nora is the more popular girl name in Canada, #14 to #18 in 2024. Nora ranks #75 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 #22 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

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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 Nora, in that place's most recent complete year.EllieNora#1#10#25#50Canada#18 → #14 ↑4USA#21 → #22 ↓1Alberta#11 → #16 ↓5British Columbia#30 → #14 ↑16Ontario#25 → #14 ↑11Quebec#41 → #49 ↓8

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 Nora Ahead
Canada2024#18#14Nora
England and Wales2025unranked#75Nora
USA2024#21#22Ellie
Alberta2024#11#16Ellie
British Columbia2024#30#14Nora
Ontario2024#25#14Nora
Quebec2024#41#49Ellie

Ellie and Nora in Canada, 2020–2024

Ellie climbed from #22 in 2020 to #18 in 2024 in Canada. Nora climbed from #29 in 2020 to #14 in 2024 in Canada. Nora passed Ellie in 2022. Ellie passed Nora in 2023. Nora passed Ellie in 2024.

Ellie and Nora ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#14 Nora#18 Ellie20202021202220232024

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Ellie and Nora in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Ellie slipped from #67 in 2020 to #88 in 2024 in England and Wales. Nora climbed from #86 in 2024 to #75 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Ellie and Nora ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#75 Nora#88 Ellie202020212022202320242025

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Ellie and Nora in the USA, 2020–2024

Ellie climbed from #29 in 2020 to #21 in 2024 in the USA. Nora climbed from #30 in 2020 to #22 in 2024 in the USA. Nora passed Ellie in 2021. Ellie passed Nora in 2024.

Ellie and Nora ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#21 Ellie#22 Nora20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

More head-to-heads with Ellie
Abigail or EllieAlice or EllieAmelia or EllieAurora or EllieAva or EllieCharlotte or EllieChloe or EllieClara or EllieElla or EllieEllie or EmmaEllie or EvelynEllie or HarperEllie or HazelEllie or IsabellaEllie or IslaEllie or LilyEllie or MayaEllie or MiaEllie or MilaEllie or OliviaEllie or SofiaEllie or SophiaEllie or SophieEllie or Violet
More head-to-heads with Nora
Abigail or NoraAlice or NoraAmelia or NoraAria or NoraAurora or NoraAva or NoraCharlotte or NoraChloe or NoraClara or NoraEleanor or NoraElla or NoraEmma or NoraEvelyn or NoraHannah or NoraHarper or NoraHazel or NoraIsabella or NoraIsla or NoraLily or NoraMaya or NoraMia or NoraMila or NoraNora or OliviaNora or RehmatNora or SofiaNora or SophiaNora or SophieNora or Violet

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.