Laurent or Liam
Liam is the more popular boy name in Canada, #2 to #99 in 2024. Liam ranks #68 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Laurent does not make that list. Liam ranks #1 among boy names in the USA for 2024, while Laurent does not make that list.
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.
Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.
| Place | Year | Laurent | Liam | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #99 | #2 | Liam |
| England and Wales | 2025 | unranked | #68 | Liam |
| USA | 2024 | unranked | #1 | Liam |
| Alberta | 2024 | unranked | #3 | Liam |
| British Columbia | 2024 | unranked | #2 | Liam |
| Ontario | 2024 | #1633 | #2 | Liam |
| Quebec | 2024 | #18 | #3 | Liam |
Laurent and Liam in Canada, 2020–2024
Laurent climbed from #137 in 2020 to #99 in 2024 in Canada. Liam slipped from #1 in 2020 to #2 in 2024 in Canada.
Laurent and Liam in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Laurent does not appear on any complete England and Wales list in this range. Liam climbed from #79 in 2020 to #68 in 2025 in England and Wales.
Laurent and Liam in the USA, 2020–2024
Laurent does not appear on any complete USA list in this range. Liam held #1 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.