Emma vs Romy

Emma is the more popular girl name in Canada, #2 to #69 in 2023. Emma is the more popular girl name in the United States, #2 to #926 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.

EmmaRomy#1#250#500#750#1000Canada#2 → #69 ↓67United States#2 → #926 ↓924British Columbia#5 → #510 ↓505Ontario#5 → #775 ↓770Quebec#1 → #13 ↓12

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

PlaceYear Emma Romy Ahead
Canada2023#2#69Emma
United States2024#2#926Emma
Alberta2024#5unrankedEmma
British Columbia2024#5#510Emma
Ontario2024#5#775Emma
Quebec2024#1#13Emma

Emma and Romy in Canada, 2020–2023

Emma held #2 every year from 2020 to 2023 in Canada. Romy slipped from #67 in 2020 to #69 in 2023 in Canada.

#1#50#100#2 Emma#69 Romy2020202120222023

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Emma and Romy in the United States, 2020–2024

Emma held #2 every year from 2020 to 2024 in the United States. Romy reached #926 in 2024 in the United States.

#1#500#1000#2 Emma#926 Romy20202021202220232024

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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.