Alfie or Rory
Rory is the more popular boy name in Canada, #138 to #1147 in 2024. Alfie is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #16 to #17 in 2025. Rory ranks #226 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.
Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.
| Place | Year | Alfie | Rory | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #1147 | #138 | Rory |
| England and Wales | 2025 | #16 | #17 | Alfie |
| USA | 2024 | unranked | #226 | Rory |
| Alberta | 2024 | unranked | #161 | Rory |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #523 | #132 | Rory |
| Ontario | 2024 | unranked | #97 | Rory |
| Quebec | 2024 | unranked | #687 | Rory |
Alfie and Rory in Canada, 2020–2024
Alfie climbed from #1177 in 2020 to #1147 in 2024 in Canada. Rory climbed from #202 in 2020 to #138 in 2024 in Canada.
Alfie and Rory in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Alfie climbed from #18 in 2020 to #16 in 2025 in England and Wales. Rory climbed from #43 in 2020 to #17 in 2025 in England and Wales.
Alfie and Rory in the USA, 2020–2024
Alfie does not appear on any complete USA list in this range. Rory climbed from #330 in 2020 to #226 in 2024 in the USA.
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.