Daniel or Henry

Henry is the more popular boy name in Canada, #12 to #28 in 2024. Henry is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #13 to #62 in 2025. Henry is the more popular boy name in the USA, #6 to #16 in 2024.

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 Daniel against Henry, in that place's most recent complete year.DanielHenry#1#50#100#250Canada#28 → #12 ↑16England and Wales#62 → #13 ↑49USA#16 → #6 ↑10Alberta#16 → #5 ↑11British Columbia#17 → #8 ↑9Ontario#19 → #6 ↑13Quebec#112 → #96 ↑16
PlaceYear Daniel Henry Ahead
Canada2024#28#12Henry
England and Wales2025#62#13Henry
USA2024#16#6Henry
Alberta2024#16#5Henry
British Columbia2024#17#8Henry
Ontario2024#19#6Henry
Quebec2024#112#96Henry

Daniel and Henry in Canada, 2020–2024

Daniel stood at #28 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada. Henry climbed from #19 in 2020 to #12 in 2024 in Canada.

Daniel and Henry ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#12 Henry#28 Daniel20202021202220232024

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Daniel and Henry in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Daniel slipped from #50 in 2020 to #62 in 2025 in England and Wales. Henry slipped from #11 in 2020 to #13 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Daniel and Henry ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#13 Henry#62 Daniel202020212022202320242025

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Daniel and Henry in the USA, 2020–2024

Daniel slipped from #14 in 2020 to #16 in 2024 in the USA. Henry climbed from #9 in 2020 to #6 in 2024 in the USA.

Daniel and Henry ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#6 Henry#16 Daniel20202021202220232024

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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.