Liam or Raphael

Liam is the more popular boy name in Canada, #2 to #56 in 2024. Liam ranks #68 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Raphael does not make that list. Liam is the more popular boy name in the USA, #1 to #420 in 2024.

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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 Liam against Raphael, in that place's most recent complete year.LiamRaphael#1#100#250#500Canada#2 → #56 ↓54USA#1 → #420 ↓419Alberta#3 → #153 ↓150British Columbia#2 → #346 ↓344Ontario#2 → #210 ↓208Quebec#3 → #17 ↓14

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

PlaceYear Liam Raphael Ahead
Canada2024#2#56Liam
England and Wales2025#68unrankedLiam
USA2024#1#420Liam
Alberta2024#3#153Liam
British Columbia2024#2#346Liam
Ontario2024#2#210Liam
Quebec2024#3#17Liam

Liam and Raphael in Canada, 2020–2024

Liam slipped from #1 in 2020 to #2 in 2024 in Canada. Raphael slipped from #55 in 2020 to #56 in 2024 in Canada.

Liam and Raphael ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#2 Liam#56 Raphael20202021202220232024

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Liam and Raphael in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Liam climbed from #79 in 2020 to #68 in 2025 in England and Wales. Raphael does not appear on any complete England and Wales list in this range.

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

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Liam and Raphael in the USA, 2020–2024

Liam held #1 every year from 2020 to 2024 in the USA. Raphael climbed from #511 in 2020 to #420 in 2024 in the USA.

Liam and Raphael ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#500#1000#1 Liam#420 Raphael20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

More head-to-heads with Liam
Adam or LiamArthur or LiamAsher or LiamBenjamin or LiamCharles or LiamDaniel or LiamEdouard or LiamElijah or LiamEmile or LiamEthan or LiamEzra or LiamHenry or LiamHudson or LiamJack or LiamJacob or LiamJames or LiamJules or LiamLaurent or LiamLeo or LiamLevi or LiamLiam or LoganLiam or LouisLiam or LucaLiam or LucasLiam or MateoLiam or MichaelLiam or MilesLiam or MuhammadLiam or NathanLiam or NoahLiam or OliverLiam or OwenLiam or SamuelLiam or SebastianLiam or TheoLiam or TheodoreLiam or ThomasLiam or WilliamLiam or WyattLiam or Zorawar
More head-to-heads with Raphael
Adam or RaphaelArthur or RaphaelCharles or RaphaelEdouard or RaphaelEmile or RaphaelJacob or RaphaelJames or RaphaelJules or RaphaelLaurent or RaphaelLeo or RaphaelLouis or RaphaelLucas or RaphaelNathan or RaphaelNoah or RaphaelRaphael or TheoRaphael or TheodoreRaphael or ThomasRaphael or William

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.