Lily or Mila

Lily is the more popular girl name in Canada, #9 to #11 in 2024. Lily is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #2 to #41 in 2025. Lily is the more popular girl name in the USA, #24 to #33 in 2024.

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 Lily against Mila, in that place's most recent complete year.LilyMila#1#10#25#50Canada#9 → #11 ↓2England and Wales#2 → #41 ↓39USA#24 → #33 ↓9Alberta#11 → #31 ↓20British Columbia#9 → #20 ↓11Ontario#15 → #21 ↓6Quebec#40 → #12 ↑28
PlaceYear Lily Mila Ahead
Canada2024#9#11Lily
England and Wales2025#2#41Lily
USA2024#24#33Lily
Alberta2024#11#31Lily
British Columbia2024#9#20Lily
Ontario2024#15#21Lily
Quebec2024#40#12Mila

Lily and Mila in Canada, 2020–2024

Lily climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in Canada. Mila slipped from #10 in 2020 to #11 in 2024 in Canada. Lily passed Mila in 2022. Mila passed Lily in 2023. Lily passed Mila in 2024.

Lily and Mila ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#9 Lily#11 Mila20202021202220232024

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Lily and Mila in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Lily climbed from #7 in 2020 to #2 in 2025 in England and Wales. Mila climbed from #47 in 2020 to #41 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Lily and Mila ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#2 Lily#41 Mila202020212022202320242025

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Lily and Mila in the USA, 2020–2024

Lily climbed from #35 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the USA. Mila slipped from #20 in 2020 to #33 in 2024 in the USA. Lily passed Mila in 2023.

Lily and Mila ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#24 Lily#33 Mila20202021202220232024

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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.