Alfie or Theodore

Theodore is the more popular boy name in Canada, #3 to #1147 in 2024. Theodore is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #9 to #16 in 2025. Theodore ranks #4 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 Theodore, in that place's most recent complete year.AlfieTheodore#1#250#500#750#1000England and Wales#16 → #9 ↑7British Columbia#523 → #4 ↑519

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 Theodore Ahead
Canada2024#1147#3Theodore
England and Wales2025#16#9Theodore
USA2024unranked#4Theodore
Alberta2024unranked#4Theodore
British Columbia2024#523#4Theodore
Ontario2024unranked#3Theodore
Quebec2024unranked#20Theodore

Alfie and Theodore in Canada, 2020–2024

Alfie climbed from #1177 in 2020 to #1147 in 2024 in Canada. Theodore climbed from #11 in 2020 to #3 in 2024 in Canada.

Alfie and Theodore ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#500#1000#3 Theodore#706 Alfie20202021202220232024

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Alfie and Theodore in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Alfie climbed from #18 in 2020 to #16 in 2025 in England and Wales. Theodore climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Alfie and Theodore ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#20#9 Theodore#16 Alfie202020212022202320242025

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Alfie and Theodore in the USA, 2020–2024

Alfie does not appear on any complete USA list in this range. Theodore climbed from #23 in 2020 to #4 in 2024 in the USA.

Alfie and Theodore ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#4 Theodore20202021202220232024

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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.