Alfie or Harry

Harry is the more popular boy name in Canada, #435 to #1147 in 2024. Alfie is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #16 to #19 in 2025. Harry ranks #777 among boy names in the USA for 2024, while Alfie does not make that list. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

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 Harry, in that place's most recent complete year.AlfieHarry#1#5#10#20England and Wales#16 → #19 ↓3

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 Harry Ahead
Canada2024#1147#435Harry
England and Wales2025#16#19Alfie
USA2024unranked#777Harry
British Columbia2024#523unrankedAlfie
Ontario2024unranked#447Harry
Quebec2024unranked#183Harry

Alfie and Harry in Canada, 2020–2024

Alfie climbed from #1177 in 2020 to #1147 in 2024 in Canada. Harry slipped from #357 in 2020 to #435 in 2024 in Canada.

Alfie and Harry ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#500#1000#435 Harry#706 Alfie20202021202220232024

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Alfie and Harry in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Alfie climbed from #18 in 2020 to #16 in 2025 in England and Wales. Harry slipped from #8 in 2020 to #19 in 2025 in England and Wales. Alfie passed Harry in 2023.

Alfie and Harry ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#16 Alfie#19 Harry202020212022202320242025

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Alfie and Harry in the USA, 2020–2024

Alfie does not appear on any complete USA list in this range. Harry slipped from #720 in 2020 to #777 in 2024 in the USA.

Alfie and Harry ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#500#1000#777 Harry20202021202220232024

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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.