Lily or Nora

Lily is the more popular girl name in Canada, #9 to #14 in 2024. Lily is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #2 to #75 in 2025. Nora is the more popular girl name in the USA, #22 to #24 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

Lily on its own page Nora 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 Lily against Nora, in that place's most recent complete year.LilyNora#1#25#50#100Canada#9 → #14 ↓5England and Wales#2 → #75 ↓73USA#24 → #22 ↑2Alberta#11 → #16 ↓5British Columbia#9 → #14 ↓5Ontario#15 → #14 ↑1Quebec#40 → #49 ↓9
PlaceYear Lily Nora Ahead
Canada2024#9#14Lily
England and Wales2025#2#75Lily
USA2024#24#22Nora
Alberta2024#11#16Lily
British Columbia2024#9#14Lily
Ontario2024#15#14Nora
Quebec2024#40#49Lily

Lily and Nora in Canada, 2020–2024

Lily climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in Canada. Nora climbed from #29 in 2020 to #14 in 2024 in Canada.

Lily and Nora ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#9 Lily#14 Nora20202021202220232024

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Lily and Nora in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Lily climbed from #7 in 2020 to #2 in 2025 in England and Wales. Nora climbed from #86 in 2024 to #75 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Lily and Nora ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#2 Lily#75 Nora202020212022202320242025

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Lily and Nora in the USA, 2020–2024

Lily climbed from #35 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the USA. Nora climbed from #30 in 2020 to #22 in 2024 in the USA. Lily passed Nora in 2023. Nora passed Lily in 2024.

Lily and Nora ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#22 Nora#24 Lily20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

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 LilyEmma 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 OliviaLily or PhoebeLily or PoppyLily or RehmatLily or SiennaLily or SofiaLily or SophiaLily or SophieLily or VioletLily or Willow
More head-to-heads with Nora
Abigail or NoraAlice or NoraAmelia or NoraAria or NoraAurora or NoraAva or NoraCharlotte or NoraChloe or NoraClara or NoraEleanor or NoraElla or NoraEllie or NoraEmma or NoraEvelyn or NoraHannah or NoraHarper or NoraHazel or NoraIsabella or NoraIsla or NoraMaya or NoraMia or NoraMila or NoraNora or OliviaNora or RehmatNora or SofiaNora or SophiaNora or SophieNora 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.