Mabel or Willow

Willow is the more popular girl name in Canada, #67 to #218 in 2024. Mabel is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #16 to #20 in 2025. Willow is the more popular girl name in the USA, #41 to #222 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

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 Mabel against Willow, in that place's most recent complete year.MabelWillow#1#50#100#250Canada#218 → #67 ↑151England and Wales#16 → #20 ↓4USA#222 → #41 ↑181Alberta#122 → #45 ↑77British Columbia#197 → #43 ↑154Ontario#232 → #53 ↑179

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

PlaceYear Mabel Willow Ahead
Canada2024#218#67Willow
England and Wales2025#16#20Mabel
USA2024#222#41Willow
Alberta2024#122#45Willow
British Columbia2024#197#43Willow
Ontario2024#232#53Willow
Quebec2024unranked#237Willow

Mabel and Willow in Canada, 2020–2024

Mabel climbed from #324 in 2020 to #218 in 2024 in Canada. Willow slipped from #65 in 2020 to #67 in 2024 in Canada.

Mabel and Willow ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#250#500#67 Willow#218 Mabel20202021202220232024

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Mabel and Willow in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Mabel climbed from #68 in 2020 to #16 in 2025 in England and Wales. Willow slipped from #13 in 2020 to #20 in 2025 in England and Wales. Mabel passed Willow in 2025.

Mabel and Willow ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#16 Mabel#20 Willow202020212022202320242025

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Mabel and Willow in the USA, 2020–2024

Mabel climbed from #428 in 2020 to #222 in 2024 in the USA. Willow climbed from #48 in 2020 to #41 in 2024 in the USA.

Mabel and Willow ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#250#500#41 Willow#222 Mabel20202021202220232024

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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.