Maya or Mila

Mila is the more popular girl name in Canada, #11 to #16 in 2024. Maya is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #28 to #41 in 2025. Mila is the more popular girl name in the USA, #33 to #51 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 Maya against Mila, in that place's most recent complete year.MayaMila#1#25#50#100Canada#16 → #11 ↑5England and Wales#28 → #41 ↓13USA#51 → #33 ↑18Alberta#34 → #31 ↑3British Columbia#11 → #20 ↓9Ontario#7 → #21 ↓14Quebec#53 → #12 ↑41
PlaceYear Maya Mila Ahead
Canada2024#16#11Mila
England and Wales2025#28#41Maya
USA2024#51#33Mila
Alberta2024#34#31Mila
British Columbia2024#11#20Maya
Ontario2024#7#21Maya
Quebec2024#53#12Mila

Maya and Mila in Canada, 2020–2024

Maya climbed from #27 in 2020 to #16 in 2024 in Canada. Mila slipped from #10 in 2020 to #11 in 2024 in Canada.

Maya and Mila ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#11 Mila#16 Maya20202021202220232024

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Maya and Mila in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Maya climbed from #32 in 2020 to #28 in 2025 in England and Wales. Mila climbed from #47 in 2020 to #41 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Maya and Mila ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#28 Maya#41 Mila202020212022202320242025

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Maya and Mila in the USA, 2020–2024

Maya climbed from #61 in 2020 to #51 in 2024 in the USA. Mila slipped from #20 in 2020 to #33 in 2024 in the USA.

Maya and Mila ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#33 Mila#51 Maya20202021202220232024

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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.