Daniel or Miles

Daniel is the more popular boy name in Canada, #28 to #38 in 2024. Daniel ranks #62 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Miles does not make that list. Daniel is the more popular boy name in the USA, #16 to #37 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 Miles, in that place's most recent complete year.DanielMiles#1#50#100#250Canada#28 → #38 ↓10USA#16 → #37 ↓21Alberta#16 → #45 ↓29British Columbia#17 → #15 ↑2Ontario#19 → #27 ↓8Quebec#112 → #207 ↓95

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 Miles Ahead
Canada2024#28#38Daniel
England and Wales2025#62unrankedDaniel
USA2024#16#37Daniel
Alberta2024#16#45Daniel
British Columbia2024#17#15Miles
Ontario2024#19#27Daniel
Quebec2024#112#207Daniel

Daniel and Miles in Canada, 2020–2024

Daniel stood at #28 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada. Miles climbed from #86 in 2020 to #38 in 2024 in Canada.

Daniel and Miles ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#28 Daniel#38 Miles20202021202220232024

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Daniel and Miles in England and Wales, 2020–2025

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

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

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Daniel and Miles in the USA, 2020–2024

Daniel slipped from #14 in 2020 to #16 in 2024 in the USA. Miles climbed from #59 in 2020 to #37 in 2024 in the USA.

Daniel and Miles ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#16 Daniel#37 Miles20202021202220232024

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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.