Charles or Emile
Charles is the more popular boy name in Canada, #30 to #65 in 2024. Charles ranks #51 among boy names in the USA for 2024, while Emile 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.
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 | Charles | Emile | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #30 | #65 | Charles |
| USA | 2024 | #51 | unranked | Charles |
| Alberta | 2024 | #92 | unranked | Charles |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #80 | unranked | Charles |
| Ontario | 2024 | #76 | unranked | Charles |
| Quebec | 2024 | #13 | #9 | Emile |
Charles and Emile in Canada, 2020–2024
Charles slipped from #24 in 2020 to #30 in 2024 in Canada. Emile slipped from #61 in 2020 to #65 in 2024 in Canada.
Charles and Emile in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Charles slipped from #88 in 2020 to #91 in 2021 in England and Wales. Emile does not appear on any complete England and Wales list in this range.
Charles and Emile in the USA, 2020–2024
Charles slipped from #46 in 2020 to #51 in 2024 in the USA. Emile does not appear on any complete USA list in this range.
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.