Lily or Phoebe

Lily is the more popular girl name in Canada, #9 to #193 in 2024. Lily is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #2 to #14 in 2025. Lily is the more popular girl name in the USA, #24 to #183 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 Phoebe, in that place's most recent complete year.LilyPhoebe#1#100#250#500Canada#9 → #193 ↓184England and Wales#2 → #14 ↓12USA#24 → #183 ↓159Alberta#11 → #170 ↓159British Columbia#9 → #225 ↓216Ontario#15 → #163 ↓148Quebec#40 → #301 ↓261
PlaceYear Lily Phoebe Ahead
Canada2024#9#193Lily
England and Wales2025#2#14Lily
USA2024#24#183Lily
Alberta2024#11#170Lily
British Columbia2024#9#225Lily
Ontario2024#15#163Lily
Quebec2024#40#301Lily

Lily and Phoebe in Canada, 2020–2024

Lily climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in Canada. Phoebe climbed from #291 in 2020 to #193 in 2024 in Canada.

Lily and Phoebe ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#250#500#9 Lily#193 Phoebe20202021202220232024

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Lily and Phoebe in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Lily climbed from #7 in 2020 to #2 in 2025 in England and Wales. Phoebe climbed from #25 in 2020 to #14 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Lily and Phoebe ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#2 Lily#14 Phoebe202020212022202320242025

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Lily and Phoebe in the USA, 2020–2024

Lily climbed from #35 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the USA. Phoebe climbed from #254 in 2020 to #183 in 2024 in the USA.

Lily and Phoebe ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#250#500#24 Lily#183 Phoebe20202021202220232024

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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.