George or Oliver
Oliver is the more popular boy name in Canada, #6 to #93 in 2024. Oliver is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #6 to #7 in 2025. Oliver is the more popular boy name in the USA, #3 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.
| Place | Year | George | Oliver | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #93 | #6 | Oliver |
| England and Wales | 2025 | #7 | #6 | Oliver |
| USA | 2024 | #124 | #3 | Oliver |
| Alberta | 2024 | #56 | #2 | Oliver |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #98 | #1 | Oliver |
| Ontario | 2024 | #95 | #4 | Oliver |
| Quebec | 2024 | #181 | #123 | Oliver |
George and Oliver in Canada, 2020–2024
George climbed from #111 in 2020 to #93 in 2024 in Canada. Oliver stood at #6 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada.
George and Oliver in England and Wales, 2020–2025
George slipped from #2 in 2020 to #7 in 2025 in England and Wales. Oliver slipped from #1 in 2020 to #6 in 2025 in England and Wales. George passed Oliver in 2022. Oliver passed George in 2023.
George and Oliver in the USA, 2020–2024
George climbed from #133 in 2020 to #124 in 2024 in the USA. Oliver held #3 every year from 2020 to 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.