Daniel or Leo

Leo is the more popular boy name in Canada, #4 to #28 in 2024. Leo is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #3 to #62 in 2025. Daniel is the more popular boy name in the USA, #16 to #24 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

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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 Daniel against Leo, in that place's most recent complete year.DanielLeo#1#50#100#250Canada#28 → #4 ↑24England and Wales#62 → #3 ↑59USA#16 → #24 ↓8Alberta#16 → #7 ↑9British Columbia#17 → #6 ↑11Ontario#19 → #10 ↑9Quebec#112 → #2 ↑110
PlaceYear Daniel Leo Ahead
Canada2024#28#4Leo
England and Wales2025#62#3Leo
USA2024#16#24Daniel
Alberta2024#16#7Leo
British Columbia2024#17#6Leo
Ontario2024#19#10Leo
Quebec2024#112#2Leo

Daniel and Leo in Canada, 2020–2024

Daniel stood at #28 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada. Leo climbed from #5 in 2020 to #4 in 2024 in Canada.

Daniel and Leo ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#4 Leo#28 Daniel20202021202220232024

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Daniel and Leo in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Daniel slipped from #50 in 2020 to #62 in 2025 in England and Wales. Leo climbed from #6 in 2020 to #3 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Daniel and Leo ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#3 Leo#62 Daniel202020212022202320242025

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Daniel and Leo in the USA, 2020–2024

Daniel slipped from #14 in 2020 to #16 in 2024 in the USA. Leo climbed from #36 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the USA.

Daniel and Leo ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#16 Daniel#24 Leo20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

More head-to-heads with Daniel
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More head-to-heads with Leo
Adam or LeoAlfie or LeoArchie or LeoArlo or LeoArthur or LeoBenjamin or LeoCharles or LeoEdouard or LeoEmile or LeoEthan or LeoFinley or LeoFreddie or LeoGeorge or LeoHarry or LeoHenry or LeoHudson or LeoJack or LeoJacob or LeoJames or LeoJude or LeoJules or LeoLaurent or LeoLeo or LeviLeo or LiamLeo or LoganLeo or LouisLeo or LucaLeo or LucasLeo or MilesLeo or MohammedLeo or MuhammadLeo or NathanLeo or NoahLeo or OliverLeo or OscarLeo or OwenLeo or RaphaelLeo or RoryLeo or TheoLeo or TheodoreLeo or ThomasLeo or WilliamLeo or WyattLeo 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.