Levi or Liam

Liam is the more popular boy name in Canada, #2 to #16 in 2024. Liam ranks #68 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Levi does not make that list. Liam is the more popular boy name in the USA, #1 to #12 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 Levi against Liam, in that place's most recent complete year.LeviLiam#1#25#50#100Canada#16 → #2 ↑14USA#12 → #1 ↑11Alberta#11 → #3 ↑8British Columbia#12 → #2 ↑10Ontario#14 → #2 ↑12Quebec#70 → #3 ↑67

Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.

PlaceYear Levi Liam Ahead
Canada2024#16#2Liam
England and Wales2025unranked#68Liam
USA2024#12#1Liam
Alberta2024#11#3Liam
British Columbia2024#12#2Liam
Ontario2024#14#2Liam
Quebec2024#70#3Liam

Levi and Liam in Canada, 2020–2024

Levi climbed from #21 in 2020 to #16 in 2024 in Canada. Liam slipped from #1 in 2020 to #2 in 2024 in Canada.

Levi and Liam ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#2 Liam#16 Levi20202021202220232024

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Levi and Liam in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Levi 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.

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

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Levi and Liam in the USA, 2020–2024

Levi climbed from #18 in 2020 to #12 in 2024 in the USA. Liam held #1 every year from 2020 to 2024 in the USA.

Levi and Liam ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#1 Liam#12 Levi20202021202220232024

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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.