Mabel or Matilda
Mabel is the more popular girl name in Canada, #218 to #293 in 2024. Mabel is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #16 to #19 in 2025. Mabel is the more popular girl name in the USA, #222 to #410 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.
Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.
| Place | Year | Mabel | Matilda | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #218 | #293 | Mabel |
| England and Wales | 2025 | #16 | #19 | Mabel |
| USA | 2024 | #222 | #410 | Mabel |
| Alberta | 2024 | #122 | #323 | Mabel |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #197 | #199 | Mabel |
| Ontario | 2024 | #232 | #233 | Mabel |
| Quebec | 2024 | unranked | #752 | Matilda |
Mabel and Matilda in Canada, 2020–2024
Mabel climbed from #324 in 2020 to #218 in 2024 in Canada. Matilda climbed from #348 in 2020 to #293 in 2024 in Canada. Matilda passed Mabel in 2021. Mabel passed Matilda in 2023.
Mabel and Matilda in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Mabel climbed from #68 in 2020 to #16 in 2025 in England and Wales. Matilda climbed from #29 in 2020 to #19 in 2025 in England and Wales. Mabel passed Matilda in 2025.
Mabel and Matilda in the USA, 2020–2024
Mabel climbed from #428 in 2020 to #222 in 2024 in the USA. Matilda climbed from #478 in 2020 to #410 in 2024 in the USA.
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.