Mabel or Sophia
Sophia is the more popular girl name in Canada, #5 to #218 in 2024. Sophia is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #13 to #16 in 2025. Sophia is the more popular girl name in the USA, #6 to #222 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 | Sophia | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #218 | #5 | Sophia |
| England and Wales | 2025 | #16 | #13 | Sophia |
| USA | 2024 | #222 | #6 | Sophia |
| Alberta | 2024 | #122 | #4 | Sophia |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #197 | #7 | Sophia |
| Ontario | 2024 | #232 | #3 | Sophia |
| Quebec | 2024 | unranked | #36 | Sophia |
Mabel and Sophia in Canada, 2020–2024
Mabel climbed from #324 in 2020 to #218 in 2024 in Canada. Sophia stood at #5 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada.
Mabel and Sophia in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Mabel climbed from #68 in 2020 to #16 in 2025 in England and Wales. Sophia slipped from #10 in 2020 to #13 in 2025 in England and Wales.
Mabel and Sophia in the USA, 2020–2024
Mabel climbed from #428 in 2020 to #222 in 2024 in the USA. Sophia slipped from #5 in 2020 to #6 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.