Harper or Violet

Violet is the more popular girl name in Canada, #17 to #35 in 2024. Harper is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #23 to #37 in 2025. Harper is the more popular girl name in the USA, #12 to #15 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 Harper against Violet, in that place's most recent complete year.HarperViolet#1#250#500#750#1000Canada#35 → #17 ↑18England and Wales#23 → #37 ↓14USA#12 → #15 ↓3Alberta#7 → #19 ↓12British Columbia#25 → #15 ↑10Ontario#30 → #11 ↑19Quebec#636 → #304 ↑332
PlaceYear Harper Violet Ahead
Canada2024#35#17Violet
England and Wales2025#23#37Harper
USA2024#12#15Harper
Alberta2024#7#19Harper
British Columbia2024#25#15Violet
Ontario2024#30#11Violet
Quebec2024#636#304Violet

Harper and Violet in Canada, 2020–2024

Harper climbed from #38 in 2020 to #35 in 2024 in Canada. Violet climbed from #34 in 2020 to #17 in 2024 in Canada. Harper passed Violet in 2021. Violet passed Harper in 2022.

Harper and Violet ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#17 Violet#35 Harper20202021202220232024

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Harper and Violet in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Harper climbed from #28 in 2020 to #23 in 2025 in England and Wales. Violet climbed from #48 in 2020 to #37 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Harper and Violet ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#23 Harper#37 Violet202020212022202320242025

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Harper and Violet in the USA, 2020–2024

Harper slipped from #10 in 2020 to #12 in 2024 in the USA. Violet climbed from #37 in 2020 to #15 in 2024 in the USA.

Harper and Violet ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#12 Harper#15 Violet20202021202220232024

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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.