Nora or Olivia

Olivia is the more popular girl name in Canada, #1 to #14 in 2024. Olivia is the more popular girl name in England and Wales, #1 to #75 in 2025. Olivia is the more popular girl name in the USA, #1 to #22 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.

Where each place ranks Nora against Olivia, in that place's most recent complete year.NoraOlivia#1#25#50#100Canada#14 → #1 ↑13England and Wales#75 → #1 ↑74USA#22 → #1 ↑21Alberta#16 → #1 ↑15British Columbia#14 → #1 ↑13Ontario#14 → #1 ↑13Quebec#49 → #2 ↑47
PlaceYear Nora Olivia Ahead
Canada2024#14#1Olivia
England and Wales2025#75#1Olivia
USA2024#22#1Olivia
Alberta2024#16#1Olivia
British Columbia2024#14#1Olivia
Ontario2024#14#1Olivia
Quebec2024#49#2Olivia

Nora and Olivia in Canada, 2020–2024

Nora climbed from #29 in 2020 to #14 in 2024 in Canada. Olivia held #1 every year from 2020 to 2024 in Canada.

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

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Nora and Olivia in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Nora climbed from #86 in 2024 to #75 in 2025 in England and Wales. Olivia held #1 every year from 2020 to 2025 in England and Wales.

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

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Nora and Olivia in the USA, 2020–2024

Nora climbed from #30 in 2020 to #22 in 2024 in the USA. Olivia held #1 every year from 2020 to 2024 in the USA.

Nora and Olivia ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#1 Olivia#22 Nora20202021202220232024

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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.