Noah or Sebastian

Noah is the more popular boy name in Canada, #1 to #79 in 2024. Noah is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #2 to #47 in 2025. Noah is the more popular boy name in the USA, #2 to #14 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 Noah against Sebastian, in that place's most recent complete year.NoahSebastian#1#50#100#250Canada#1 → #79 ↓78England and Wales#2 → #47 ↓45USA#2 → #14 ↓12Alberta#1 → #86 ↓85British Columbia#3 → #71 ↓68Ontario#1 → #61 ↓60Quebec#1 → #231 ↓230
PlaceYear Noah Sebastian Ahead
Canada2024#1#79Noah
England and Wales2025#2#47Noah
USA2024#2#14Noah
Alberta2024#1#86Noah
British Columbia2024#3#71Noah
Ontario2024#1#61Noah
Quebec2024#1#231Noah

Noah and Sebastian in Canada, 2020–2024

Noah climbed from #2 in 2020 to #1 in 2024 in Canada. Sebastian climbed from #80 in 2020 to #79 in 2024 in Canada.

Noah and Sebastian ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#1 Noah#79 Sebastian20202021202220232024

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Noah and Sebastian in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Noah climbed from #4 in 2020 to #2 in 2025 in England and Wales. Sebastian slipped from #39 in 2020 to #47 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Noah and Sebastian ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#2 Noah#47 Sebastian202020212022202320242025

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Noah and Sebastian in the USA, 2020–2024

Noah held #2 every year from 2020 to 2024 in the USA. Sebastian climbed from #19 in 2020 to #14 in 2024 in the USA.

Noah and Sebastian ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#2 Noah#14 Sebastian20202021202220232024

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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.