Emma or Harper

Emma is the more popular girl name in Canada, #3 to #35 in 2024. Harper is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #23 to #85 in 2025. Emma is the more popular girl name in the USA, #2 to #12 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

Emma on its own page Harper on its own page

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 Emma against Harper, in that place's most recent complete year.EmmaHarper#1#250#500#750#1000Canada#3 → #35 ↓32England and Wales#85 → #23 ↑62USA#2 → #12 ↓10Alberta#5 → #7 ↓2British Columbia#5 → #25 ↓20Ontario#5 → #30 ↓25Quebec#1 → #636 ↓635
PlaceYear Emma Harper Ahead
Canada2024#3#35Emma
England and Wales2025#85#23Harper
USA2024#2#12Emma
Alberta2024#5#7Emma
British Columbia2024#5#25Emma
Ontario2024#5#30Emma
Quebec2024#1#636Emma

Emma and Harper in Canada, 2020–2024

Emma slipped from #2 in 2020 to #3 in 2024 in Canada. Harper climbed from #38 in 2020 to #35 in 2024 in Canada.

Emma and Harper ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#3 Emma#35 Harper20202021202220232024

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Emma and Harper in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Emma slipped from #60 in 2020 to #85 in 2025 in England and Wales. Harper climbed from #28 in 2020 to #23 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Emma and Harper ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#23 Harper#85 Emma202020212022202320242025

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Emma and Harper in the USA, 2020–2024

Emma held #2 every year from 2020 to 2024 in the USA. Harper slipped from #10 in 2020 to #12 in 2024 in the USA.

Emma and Harper ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#2 Emma#12 Harper20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

More head-to-heads with Emma
Abigail or EmmaAlice or EmmaAmelia or EmmaAria or EmmaAurora or EmmaAva or EmmaBeatrice or EmmaCamila or EmmaCharlie or EmmaCharlotte or EmmaChloe or EmmaClara or EmmaEleanor or EmmaEliana or EmmaElizabeth or EmmaElla or EmmaEllie or EmmaEmma or EvaEmma or EvelynEmma or FlorenceEmma or HannahEmma or HazelEmma or IsabellaEmma or IslaEmma or JulietteEmma or LeaEmma or LeonieEmma or LilyEmma or LiviaEmma or LunaEmma or MayaEmma or MiaEmma or MilaEmma or NoraEmma or OliviaEmma or RehmatEmma or RomyEmma or RoseEmma or SofiaEmma or SophiaEmma or SophieEmma or VictoriaEmma or VioletEmma or Zoe
More head-to-heads with Harper
Abigail or HarperAmelia or HarperAurora or HarperAva or HarperCamila or HarperCharlotte or HarperChloe or HarperEleanor or HarperEliana or HarperElizabeth or HarperElla or HarperEllie or HarperEvelyn or HarperHarper or HazelHarper or IsabellaHarper or IslaHarper or LilyHarper or LunaHarper or MiaHarper or NoraHarper or OliviaHarper or SofiaHarper or SophiaHarper or SophieHarper 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.