Charles or Theodore

Theodore is the more popular boy name in Canada, #3 to #30 in 2024. Theodore ranks #9 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Charles does not make that list. Theodore is the more popular boy name in the USA, #4 to #51 in 2024.

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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 Charles against Theodore, in that place's most recent complete year.CharlesTheodore#1#25#50#100Canada#30 → #3 ↑27USA#51 → #4 ↑47Alberta#92 → #4 ↑88British Columbia#80 → #4 ↑76Ontario#76 → #3 ↑73Quebec#13 → #20 ↓7

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 Theodore Ahead
Canada2024#30#3Theodore
England and Wales2025unranked#9Theodore
USA2024#51#4Theodore
Alberta2024#92#4Theodore
British Columbia2024#80#4Theodore
Ontario2024#76#3Theodore
Quebec2024#13#20Charles

Charles and Theodore in Canada, 2020–2024

Charles slipped from #24 in 2020 to #30 in 2024 in Canada. Theodore climbed from #11 in 2020 to #3 in 2024 in Canada.

Charles and Theodore ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#3 Theodore#30 Charles20202021202220232024

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Charles and Theodore in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Charles slipped from #88 in 2020 to #91 in 2021 in England and Wales. Theodore climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Charles and Theodore ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#9 Theodore#91 Charles202020212022202320242025

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Charles and Theodore in the USA, 2020–2024

Charles slipped from #46 in 2020 to #51 in 2024 in the USA. Theodore climbed from #23 in 2020 to #4 in 2024 in the USA.

Charles and Theodore ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#4 Theodore#51 Charles20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

More head-to-heads with Charles
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More head-to-heads with Theodore
Adam or TheodoreAlfie or TheodoreArchie or TheodoreArlo or TheodoreArthur or TheodoreAsher or TheodoreBenjamin or TheodoreDaniel or TheodoreEdouard or TheodoreElijah or TheodoreEmile or TheodoreEthan or TheodoreEzra or TheodoreFinley or TheodoreFreddie or TheodoreGeorge or TheodoreHarry or TheodoreHenry or TheodoreHudson or TheodoreJack or TheodoreJacob or TheodoreJames or TheodoreJude or TheodoreJules or TheodoreLaurent or TheodoreLeo or TheodoreLevi or TheodoreLiam or TheodoreLogan or TheodoreLouis or TheodoreLuca or TheodoreLucas or TheodoreMateo or TheodoreMichael or TheodoreMiles or TheodoreMohammed or TheodoreMuhammad or TheodoreNathan or TheodoreNoah or TheodoreOliver or TheodoreOscar or TheodoreOwen or TheodoreRaphael or TheodoreRory or TheodoreSamuel or TheodoreSebastian or TheodoreTheo or TheodoreTheodore or ThomasTheodore or WilliamTheodore or WyattTheodore or Zorawar

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.