Alfie or Archie

Archie is the more popular boy name in Canada, #275 to #1147 in 2024. Archie is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #11 to #16 in 2025. Archie ranks #333 among boy names in the USA for 2024, while Alfie does not make that list.

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 Alfie against Archie, in that place's most recent complete year.AlfieArchie#1#250#500#750#1000England and Wales#16 → #11 ↑5British Columbia#523 → #306 ↑217

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

PlaceYear Alfie Archie Ahead
Canada2024#1147#275Archie
England and Wales2025#16#11Archie
USA2024unranked#333Archie
Alberta2024unranked#198Archie
British Columbia2024#523#306Archie
Ontario2024unranked#261Archie
Quebec2024unranked#463Archie

Alfie and Archie in Canada, 2020–2024

Alfie climbed from #1177 in 2020 to #1147 in 2024 in Canada. Archie climbed from #368 in 2020 to #275 in 2024 in Canada.

Alfie and Archie ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#500#1000#275 Archie#706 Alfie20202021202220232024

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Alfie and Archie in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Alfie climbed from #18 in 2020 to #16 in 2025 in England and Wales. Archie slipped from #9 in 2020 to #11 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Alfie and Archie ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#20#11 Archie#16 Alfie202020212022202320242025

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Alfie and Archie in the USA, 2020–2024

Alfie does not appear on any complete USA list in this range. Archie climbed from #465 in 2020 to #333 in 2024 in the USA.

Alfie and Archie ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#250#500#333 Archie20202021202220232024

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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.