Owen or William
William is the more popular boy name in Canada, #5 to #22 in 2024. William ranks #25 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Owen does not make that list. William is the more popular boy name in the USA, #10 to #26 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 | Owen | William | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #22 | #5 | William |
| England and Wales | 2025 | unranked | #25 | William |
| USA | 2024 | #26 | #10 | William |
| Alberta | 2024 | #19 | #6 | William |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #11 | #10 | William |
| Ontario | 2024 | #18 | #12 | William |
| Quebec | 2024 | #80 | #4 | William |
Owen and William in Canada, 2020–2024
Owen slipped from #16 in 2020 to #22 in 2024 in Canada. William slipped from #3 in 2020 to #5 in 2024 in Canada.
Owen and William in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Owen does not appear on any complete England and Wales list in this range. William slipped from #20 in 2020 to #25 in 2025 in England and Wales.
Owen and William in the USA, 2020–2024
Owen slipped from #22 in 2020 to #26 in 2024 in the USA. William slipped from #5 in 2020 to #10 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.