George or Leo

Leo is the more popular boy name in Canada, #4 to #93 in 2024. Leo is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #3 to #7 in 2025. Leo is the more popular boy name in the USA, #24 to #124 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 George against Leo, in that place's most recent complete year.GeorgeLeo#1#50#100#250Canada#93 → #4 ↑89England and Wales#7 → #3 ↑4USA#124 → #24 ↑100Alberta#56 → #7 ↑49British Columbia#98 → #6 ↑92Ontario#95 → #10 ↑85Quebec#181 → #2 ↑179
PlaceYear George Leo Ahead
Canada2024#93#4Leo
England and Wales2025#7#3Leo
USA2024#124#24Leo
Alberta2024#56#7Leo
British Columbia2024#98#6Leo
Ontario2024#95#10Leo
Quebec2024#181#2Leo

George and Leo in Canada, 2020–2024

George climbed from #111 in 2020 to #93 in 2024 in Canada. Leo climbed from #5 in 2020 to #4 in 2024 in Canada.

George and Leo ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#125#250#4 Leo#93 George20202021202220232024

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George and Leo in England and Wales, 2020–2025

George slipped from #2 in 2020 to #7 in 2025 in England and Wales. Leo climbed from #6 in 2020 to #3 in 2025 in England and Wales. Leo passed George in 2024.

George and Leo ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#10#3 Leo#7 George202020212022202320242025

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George and Leo in the USA, 2020–2024

George climbed from #133 in 2020 to #124 in 2024 in the USA. Leo climbed from #36 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the USA.

George and Leo ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#125#250#24 Leo#124 George20202021202220232024

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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.