Elijah or Michael
Elijah is the more popular boy name in Canada, #33 to #53 in 2024. Elijah is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #23 to #85 in 2025. Elijah is the more popular boy name in the USA, #8 to #18 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.
| Place | Year | Elijah | Michael | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #33 | #53 | Elijah |
| England and Wales | 2025 | #23 | #85 | Elijah |
| USA | 2024 | #8 | #18 | Elijah |
| Alberta | 2024 | #22 | #65 | Elijah |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #30 | #70 | Elijah |
| Ontario | 2024 | #26 | #51 | Elijah |
| Quebec | 2024 | #136 | #116 | Michael |
Elijah and Michael in Canada, 2020–2024
Elijah climbed from #42 in 2020 to #33 in 2024 in Canada. Michael slipped from #40 in 2020 to #53 in 2024 in Canada. Elijah passed Michael in 2021.
Elijah and Michael in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Elijah climbed from #30 in 2020 to #23 in 2025 in England and Wales. Michael slipped from #74 in 2020 to #85 in 2025 in England and Wales.
Elijah and Michael in the USA, 2020–2024
Elijah slipped from #4 in 2020 to #8 in 2024 in the USA. Michael slipped from #12 in 2020 to #18 in 2024 in the USA.
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.