Ethan or Liam

Liam is the more popular boy name in Canada, #2 to #15 in 2024. Ethan is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #54 to #68 in 2025. Liam is the more popular boy name in the USA, #1 to #19 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

Ethan on its own page Liam on its own page

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 Ethan against Liam, in that place's most recent complete year.EthanLiam#1#25#50#100Canada#15 → #2 ↑13England and Wales#54 → #68 ↓14USA#19 → #1 ↑18Alberta#7 → #3 ↑4British Columbia#7 → #2 ↑5Ontario#17 → #2 ↑15Quebec#34 → #3 ↑31
PlaceYear Ethan Liam Ahead
Canada2024#15#2Liam
England and Wales2025#54#68Ethan
USA2024#19#1Liam
Alberta2024#7#3Liam
British Columbia2024#7#2Liam
Ontario2024#17#2Liam
Quebec2024#34#3Liam

Ethan and Liam in Canada, 2020–2024

Ethan stood at #15 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada. Liam slipped from #1 in 2020 to #2 in 2024 in Canada.

Ethan and Liam ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#2 Liam#15 Ethan20202021202220232024

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Ethan and Liam in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Ethan slipped from #36 in 2020 to #54 in 2025 in England and Wales. Liam climbed from #79 in 2020 to #68 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Ethan and Liam ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#54 Ethan#68 Liam202020212022202320242025

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Ethan and Liam in the USA, 2020–2024

Ethan slipped from #13 in 2020 to #19 in 2024 in the USA. Liam held #1 every year from 2020 to 2024 in the USA.

Ethan and Liam ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#1 Liam#19 Ethan20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

More head-to-heads with Ethan
Adam or EthanArthur or EthanAsher or EthanBenjamin or EthanDaniel or EthanElijah or EthanEthan or EzraEthan or HenryEthan or HudsonEthan or JackEthan or JacobEthan or JamesEthan or LeoEthan or LeviEthan or LoganEthan or LucaEthan or LucasEthan or MateoEthan or MichaelEthan or MilesEthan or MuhammadEthan or NathanEthan or NoahEthan or OliverEthan or OwenEthan or SamuelEthan or SebastianEthan or TheoEthan or TheodoreEthan or ThomasEthan or WilliamEthan or WyattEthan or Zorawar
More head-to-heads with Liam
Adam or LiamArthur or LiamAsher or LiamBenjamin or LiamCharles or LiamDaniel or LiamEdouard or LiamElijah or LiamEmile or LiamEzra or LiamHenry or LiamHudson or LiamJack or LiamJacob or LiamJames or LiamJules or LiamLaurent or LiamLeo or LiamLevi or LiamLiam or LoganLiam or LouisLiam or LucaLiam or LucasLiam or MateoLiam or MichaelLiam or MilesLiam or MuhammadLiam or NathanLiam or NoahLiam or OliverLiam or OwenLiam or RaphaelLiam or SamuelLiam or SebastianLiam or TheoLiam or TheodoreLiam or ThomasLiam or WilliamLiam or WyattLiam 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.