Lucas or Theodore

Theodore is the more popular boy name in Canada, #3 to #7 in 2024. Theodore is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #9 to #32 in 2025. Theodore is the more popular boy name in the USA, #4 to #9 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 Lucas against Theodore, in that place's most recent complete year.LucasTheodore#1#10#25#50Canada#7 → #3 ↑4England and Wales#32 → #9 ↑23USA#9 → #4 ↑5Alberta#10 → #4 ↑6British Columbia#5 → #4 ↑1Ontario#8 → #3 ↑5Quebec#19 → #20 ↓1
PlaceYear Lucas Theodore Ahead
Canada2024#7#3Theodore
England and Wales2025#32#9Theodore
USA2024#9#4Theodore
Alberta2024#10#4Theodore
British Columbia2024#5#4Theodore
Ontario2024#8#3Theodore
Quebec2024#19#20Lucas

Lucas and Theodore in Canada, 2020–2024

Lucas stood at #7 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada. Theodore climbed from #11 in 2020 to #3 in 2024 in Canada. Theodore passed Lucas in 2021.

Lucas and Theodore ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#3 Theodore#7 Lucas20202021202220232024

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Lucas and Theodore in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Lucas slipped from #25 in 2020 to #32 in 2025 in England and Wales. Theodore climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Lucas and Theodore ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#9 Theodore#32 Lucas202020212022202320242025

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Lucas and Theodore in the USA, 2020–2024

Lucas slipped from #8 in 2020 to #9 in 2024 in the USA. Theodore climbed from #23 in 2020 to #4 in 2024 in the USA. Theodore passed Lucas in 2023.

Lucas and Theodore ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#4 Theodore#9 Lucas20202021202220232024

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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.