Name rankings, search & meaning — together
Popularity, trends, meanings and recommendations for Canada, England and Wales, and the USA, plus 4 provinces inside them, built from real 2020–2025 government name-ranking data.
4,917 names tracked3 countries4 provinces2020–2025 registrations
Look at one name from every angle
Every figure below is one a government register published.
A name’s journey
Every year’s rank, plotted so you can see a name rise, fall, or hold steady.
Rankings & preference
Compare popularity by place and year, straight from birth-registration data.
- Canada#3
- England and Wales#8
- USA#4
Related names
Style collections group names by feel — Vintage, Nature, Biblical and more.
The names everyone’s searching for
The top 5 in each column, from the latest complete 2024 USA rankings, with what each name means and how far it has moved since 2020.
Girls · USA 2024
Drift since 2020Boys · USA 2024
Drift since 2020Names grouped by how they feel
Modern Baby Names
33 of these names sit in Canada’s 2024 top 100 for their sex.
Classic Baby Names
47 of these names sit in Canada’s 2024 top 100 for their sex.
International Baby Names
39 of these names sit in Canada’s 2024 top 100 for their sex.
Biblical Baby Names
43 of these names sit in Canada’s 2024 top 100 for their sex.
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Four names from the top of the 2024 USA girls’ and boys’ lists, with what each one means.
Every ranking here is a government record
- Canada
Statistics Canada
2020–2023 · via a third-party compilation · 9,133 names · ranked here from the birth counts
- Canada
Statistics Canada
2024 · from table 17-10-0147-01 · 7,467 names · ranked here from the birth counts
- England and Wales
Office for National Statistics
2020–2025 · from the ONS baby-name tables · 239 names · ranked here from the birth counts
- USA
United States Social Security Administration
2020–2024 · via a third-party mirror · 2,165 names · ranked as the source publishes it
- Alberta
Government of Alberta
2020–2024 · from Alberta open data · 2,588 names · ranked as the source publishes it
- British Columbia
BC Vital Statistics Agency
2020–2024 · from British Columbia open data · 2,265 names · ranked here from the birth counts
- Ontario
Government of Ontario
2020–2024 · from Ontario open data · 4,556 names · ranked here from the birth counts
- Quebec
Retraite Québec
2020–2024 · via Données Québec · 2,640 names · ranked here from the birth counts
Ranks from the USA arrive without the birth counts behind them, so no page here reports a number of babies for that list.