Lily or Violet

Lily is the more popular girl name in Canada, #9 to #17 in 2024. Lily is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #2 to #37 in 2025. Violet is the more popular girl name in the USA, #15 to #24 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

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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 Violet, in that place's most recent complete year.LilyViolet#1#100#250#500Canada#9 → #17 ↓8England and Wales#2 → #37 ↓35USA#24 → #15 ↑9Alberta#11 → #19 ↓8British Columbia#9 → #15 ↓6Ontario#15 → #11 ↑4Quebec#40 → #304 ↓264
PlaceYear Lily Violet Ahead
Canada2024#9#17Lily
England and Wales2025#2#37Lily
USA2024#24#15Violet
Alberta2024#11#19Lily
British Columbia2024#9#15Lily
Ontario2024#15#11Violet
Quebec2024#40#304Lily

Lily and Violet in Canada, 2020–2024

Lily climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in Canada. Violet climbed from #34 in 2020 to #17 in 2024 in Canada.

Lily and Violet ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#9 Lily#17 Violet20202021202220232024

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Lily and Violet in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Lily climbed from #7 in 2020 to #2 in 2025 in England and Wales. Violet climbed from #48 in 2020 to #37 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Lily and Violet ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#2 Lily#37 Violet202020212022202320242025

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Lily and Violet in the USA, 2020–2024

Lily climbed from #35 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the USA. Violet climbed from #37 in 2020 to #15 in 2024 in the USA. Violet passed Lily in 2022.

Lily and Violet ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#15 Violet#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 NoraLily or OliviaLily or PhoebeLily or PoppyLily or RehmatLily or SiennaLily or SofiaLily or SophiaLily or SophieLily or Willow
More head-to-heads with Violet
Abigail or VioletAlice or VioletAmelia or VioletAria or VioletAurora or VioletAva or VioletCamila or VioletCharlotte or VioletChloe or VioletClara or VioletEleanor or VioletEliana or VioletElizabeth or VioletElla or VioletEllie or VioletEmma or VioletEvelyn or VioletHannah or VioletHarper or VioletHazel or VioletIsabella or VioletIsla or VioletLuna or VioletMaya or VioletMia or VioletMila or VioletNora or VioletOlivia or VioletRehmat or VioletSofia or VioletSophia or VioletSophie 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.