Emma or Lily

Emma is the more popular girl name in Canada, #3 to #9 in 2024. Lily is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #2 to #85 in 2025. Emma is the more popular girl name in the USA, #2 to #24 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

Emma on its own page Lily 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 Lily, in that place's most recent complete year.EmmaLily#1#25#50#100Canada#3 → #9 ↓6England and Wales#85 → #2 ↑83USA#2 → #24 ↓22Alberta#5 → #11 ↓6British Columbia#5 → #9 ↓4Ontario#5 → #15 ↓10Quebec#1 → #40 ↓39
PlaceYear Emma Lily Ahead
Canada2024#3#9Emma
England and Wales2025#85#2Lily
USA2024#2#24Emma
Alberta2024#5#11Emma
British Columbia2024#5#9Emma
Ontario2024#5#15Emma
Quebec2024#1#40Emma

Emma and Lily in Canada, 2020–2024

Emma slipped from #2 in 2020 to #3 in 2024 in Canada. Lily climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in Canada.

Emma and Lily ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#3 Emma#9 Lily20202021202220232024

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Emma and Lily in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Emma slipped from #60 in 2020 to #85 in 2025 in England and Wales. Lily climbed from #7 in 2020 to #2 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Emma and Lily ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#2 Lily#85 Emma202020212022202320242025

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Emma and Lily in the USA, 2020–2024

Emma held #2 every year from 2020 to 2024 in the USA. Lily climbed from #35 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the USA.

Emma and Lily ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#2 Emma#24 Lily20202021202220232024

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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 HarperEmma or HazelEmma or IsabellaEmma or IslaEmma or JulietteEmma or LeaEmma or LeonieEmma 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 Lily
Abigail or LilyAlice or LilyAmelia or LilyAria or LilyAurora or LilyAva or LilyCharlotte or LilyChloe or LilyClara or LilyDaisy or LilyEleanor or LilyElla or LilyEllie or LilyElsie or LilyEvelyn or LilyFlorence or LilyFreya or LilyHannah or LilyHarper or LilyHazel or LilyIsabella or LilyIsla or LilyIvy or LilyLily or MabelLily or MatildaLily or MayaLily or MiaLily or MilaLily or NoraLily or OliviaLily or PhoebeLily or PoppyLily or RehmatLily or SiennaLily or SofiaLily or SophiaLily or SophieLily or VioletLily or Willow

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.