Louis or Raphael
Louis is the more popular boy name in Canada, #31 to #56 in 2024. Louis ranks #49 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Raphael does not make that list. Louis is the more popular boy name in the USA, #236 to #420 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.
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 | Louis | Raphael | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #31 | #56 | Louis |
| England and Wales | 2025 | #49 | unranked | Louis |
| USA | 2024 | #236 | #420 | Louis |
| Alberta | 2024 | #153 | #153 | Raphael |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #137 | #346 | Louis |
| Ontario | 2024 | #131 | #210 | Louis |
| Quebec | 2024 | #6 | #17 | Louis |
Louis and Raphael in Canada, 2020–2024
Louis climbed from #46 in 2020 to #31 in 2024 in Canada. Raphael slipped from #55 in 2020 to #56 in 2024 in Canada.
Louis and Raphael in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Louis climbed from #52 in 2020 to #49 in 2025 in England and Wales. Raphael does not appear on any complete England and Wales list in this range.
Louis and Raphael in the USA, 2020–2024
Louis climbed from #260 in 2020 to #236 in 2024 in the USA. Raphael climbed from #511 in 2020 to #420 in 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.