Harper vs Lily

Lily is the more popular girl name in Canada, #12 to #37 in 2023. Harper is the more popular girl name in the United States, #12 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.

HarperLily#1#250#500#750#1000Canada#37 → #12 ↑25United States#12 → #24 ↓12Alberta#7 → #11 ↓4British Columbia#25 → #9 ↑16Ontario#30 → #15 ↑15Quebec#636 → #40 ↑596
PlaceYear Harper Lily Ahead
Canada2023#37#12Lily
United States2024#12#24Harper
Alberta2024#7#11Harper
British Columbia2024#25#9Lily
Ontario2024#30#15Lily
Quebec2024#636#40Lily

Harper and Lily in Canada, 2020–2023

Harper climbed from #38 in 2020 to #37 in 2023 in Canada. Lily climbed from #14 in 2020 to #12 in 2023 in Canada.

#1#50#12 Lily#37 Harper2020202120222023

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Harper and Lily in the United States, 2020–2024

Harper slipped from #10 in 2020 to #12 in 2024 in the United States. Lily climbed from #35 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the United States.

#1#50#12 Harper#24 Lily20202021202220232024

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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.