Charles vs Laurent

Charles is the more popular boy name in Canada, #27 to #110 in 2023. Charles ranks #51 among boy names in the United States for 2024, while Laurent 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.

CharlesLaurent#1#50#100#250Canada#27 → #110 ↓83Quebec#13 → #18 ↓5

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

PlaceYear Charles Laurent Ahead
Canada2023#27#110Charles
United States2024#51unrankedCharles
Alberta2024#92unrankedCharles
British Columbia2024#80unrankedCharles
Ontario2024#76#1633Charles
Quebec2024#13#18Charles

Charles and Laurent in Canada, 2020–2023

Charles slipped from #24 in 2020 to #27 in 2023 in Canada. Laurent climbed from #137 in 2020 to #110 in 2023 in Canada.

#1#125#250#27 Charles#110 Laurent2020202120222023

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Charles and Laurent in the United States, 2020–2024

Charles slipped from #46 in 2020 to #51 in 2024 in the United States. Laurent does not appear on any complete United States list in this range.

#1#50#100#51 Charles20202021202220232024

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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.