Leo or Oliver

Leo is the more popular boy name in Canada, #4 to #6 in 2024. Leo is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #3 to #6 in 2025. Oliver is the more popular boy name in the USA, #3 to #24 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

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 Leo against Oliver, in that place's most recent complete year.LeoOliver#1#50#100#250Canada#4 → #6 ↓2England and Wales#3 → #6 ↓3USA#24 → #3 ↑21Alberta#7 → #2 ↑5British Columbia#6 → #1 ↑5Ontario#10 → #4 ↑6Quebec#2 → #123 ↓121
PlaceYear Leo Oliver Ahead
Canada2024#4#6Leo
England and Wales2025#3#6Leo
USA2024#24#3Oliver
Alberta2024#7#2Oliver
British Columbia2024#6#1Oliver
Ontario2024#10#4Oliver
Quebec2024#2#123Leo

Leo and Oliver in Canada, 2020–2024

Leo climbed from #5 in 2020 to #4 in 2024 in Canada. Oliver stood at #6 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada.

Leo and Oliver ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#10#4 Leo#6 Oliver20202021202220232024

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Leo and Oliver in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Leo climbed from #6 in 2020 to #3 in 2025 in England and Wales. Oliver slipped from #1 in 2020 to #6 in 2025 in England and Wales. Leo passed Oliver in 2025.

Leo and Oliver ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#10#3 Leo#6 Oliver202020212022202320242025

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Leo and Oliver in the USA, 2020–2024

Leo climbed from #36 in 2020 to #24 in 2024 in the USA. Oliver held #3 every year from 2020 to 2024 in the USA.

Leo and Oliver ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#3 Oliver#24 Leo20202021202220232024

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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.