Daniel or Mateo

Daniel is the more popular boy name in Canada, #28 to #52 in 2024. Daniel ranks #62 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Mateo does not make that list. Mateo is the more popular boy name in the USA, #7 to #16 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

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 Mateo, in that place's most recent complete year.DanielMateo#1#50#100#250Canada#28 → #52 ↓24USA#16 → #7 ↑9Alberta#16 → #81 ↓65British Columbia#17 → #60 ↓43Ontario#19 → #54 ↓35Quebec#112 → #65 ↑47

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

PlaceYear Daniel Mateo Ahead
Canada2024#28#52Daniel
England and Wales2025#62unrankedDaniel
USA2024#16#7Mateo
Alberta2024#16#81Daniel
British Columbia2024#17#60Daniel
Ontario2024#19#54Daniel
Quebec2024#112#65Mateo

Daniel and Mateo in Canada, 2020–2024

Daniel stood at #28 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada. Mateo climbed from #59 in 2020 to #52 in 2024 in Canada.

Daniel and Mateo ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#28 Daniel#52 Mateo20202021202220232024

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Daniel and Mateo in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Daniel slipped from #50 in 2020 to #62 in 2025 in England and Wales. Mateo does not appear on any complete England and Wales list in this range.

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

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Daniel and Mateo in the USA, 2020–2024

Daniel slipped from #14 in 2020 to #16 in 2024 in the USA. Mateo climbed from #20 in 2020 to #7 in 2024 in the USA. Mateo passed Daniel in 2021.

Daniel and Mateo ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#7 Mateo#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.