Olivia or Zoe

Olivia is the more popular girl name in Canada, #1 to #21 in 2024. Olivia ranks #1 among girl names in England and Wales for 2025, while Zoe does not make that list. Olivia is the more popular girl name in the USA, #1 to #29 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 Olivia against Zoe, in that place's most recent complete year.OliviaZoe#1#25#50#100Canada#1 → #21 ↓20USA#1 → #29 ↓28Alberta#1 → #84 ↓83British Columbia#1 → #47 ↓46Ontario#1 → #46 ↓45Quebec#2 → #17 ↓15

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

PlaceYear Olivia Zoe Ahead
Canada2024#1#21Olivia
England and Wales2025#1unrankedOlivia
USA2024#1#29Olivia
Alberta2024#1#84Olivia
British Columbia2024#1#47Olivia
Ontario2024#1#46Olivia
Quebec2024#2#17Olivia

Olivia and Zoe in Canada, 2020–2024

Olivia held #1 every year from 2020 to 2024 in Canada. Zoe slipped from #12 in 2020 to #21 in 2024 in Canada.

Olivia and Zoe ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#1 Olivia#21 Zoe20202021202220232024

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Olivia and Zoe in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Olivia held #1 every year from 2020 to 2025 in England and Wales. Zoe reached #99 in 2024 in England and Wales.

Olivia and Zoe ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#1 Olivia#99 Zoe202020212022202320242025

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Olivia and Zoe in the USA, 2020–2024

Olivia held #1 every year from 2020 to 2024 in the USA. Zoe climbed from #40 in 2020 to #29 in 2024 in the USA.

Olivia and Zoe ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#1 Olivia#29 Zoe20202021202220232024

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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.