Lily or Poppy

Lily is the more popular girl name in Canada, #9 to #236 in 2024. Lily is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #2 to #7 in 2025. Lily is the more popular girl name in the USA, #24 to #338 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 Poppy, in that place's most recent complete year.LilyPoppy#1#100#250#500Canada#9 → #236 ↓227England and Wales#2 → #7 ↓5USA#24 → #338 ↓314Alberta#11 → #198 ↓187British Columbia#9 → #156 ↓147Ontario#15 → #167 ↓152

Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.

PlaceYear Lily Poppy Ahead
Canada2024#9#236Lily
England and Wales2025#2#7Lily
USA2024#24#338Lily
Alberta2024#11#198Lily
British Columbia2024#9#156Lily
Ontario2024#15#167Lily
Quebec2024#40unrankedLily

Lily and Poppy in Canada, 2020–2024

Lily climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in Canada. Poppy climbed from #256 in 2020 to #236 in 2024 in Canada.

Lily and Poppy ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#250#500#9 Lily#236 Poppy20202021202220232024

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Lily and Poppy in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Lily climbed from #7 in 2020 to #2 in 2025 in England and Wales. Poppy climbed from #17 in 2020 to #7 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Lily and Poppy ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#20#2 Lily#7 Poppy202020212022202320242025

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Lily and Poppy in the USA, 2020–2024

Lily climbed from #35 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the USA. Poppy climbed from #457 in 2020 to #338 in 2024 in the USA.

Lily and Poppy ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#250#500#24 Lily#338 Poppy20202021202220232024

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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.