Mila or Nora

Mila is the more popular girl name in Canada, #11 to #14 in 2024. Mila is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #41 to #75 in 2025. Nora is the more popular girl name in the USA, #22 to #33 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 Mila against Nora, in that place's most recent complete year.MilaNora#1#25#50#100Canada#11 → #14 ↓3England and Wales#41 → #75 ↓34USA#33 → #22 ↑11Alberta#31 → #16 ↑15British Columbia#20 → #14 ↑6Ontario#21 → #14 ↑7Quebec#12 → #49 ↓37
PlaceYear Mila Nora Ahead
Canada2024#11#14Mila
England and Wales2025#41#75Mila
USA2024#33#22Nora
Alberta2024#31#16Nora
British Columbia2024#20#14Nora
Ontario2024#21#14Nora
Quebec2024#12#49Mila

Mila and Nora in Canada, 2020–2024

Mila slipped from #10 in 2020 to #11 in 2024 in Canada. Nora climbed from #29 in 2020 to #14 in 2024 in Canada.

Mila and Nora ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#11 Mila#14 Nora20202021202220232024

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Mila and Nora in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Mila climbed from #47 in 2020 to #41 in 2025 in England and Wales. Nora climbed from #86 in 2024 to #75 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Mila and Nora ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#41 Mila#75 Nora202020212022202320242025

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Mila and Nora in the USA, 2020–2024

Mila slipped from #20 in 2020 to #33 in 2024 in the USA. Nora climbed from #30 in 2020 to #22 in 2024 in the USA. Nora passed Mila in 2023.

Mila and Nora ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#22 Nora#33 Mila20202021202220232024

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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.