Raphael or Theodore

Theodore is the more popular boy name in Canada, #3 to #56 in 2024. Theodore ranks #9 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Raphael does not make that list. Theodore is the more popular boy name in the USA, #4 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.

Where each place ranks Raphael against Theodore, in that place's most recent complete year.RaphaelTheodore#1#100#250#500Canada#56 → #3 ↑53USA#420 → #4 ↑416Alberta#153 → #4 ↑149British Columbia#346 → #4 ↑342Ontario#210 → #3 ↑207Quebec#17 → #20 ↓3

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

PlaceYear Raphael Theodore Ahead
Canada2024#56#3Theodore
England and Wales2025unranked#9Theodore
USA2024#420#4Theodore
Alberta2024#153#4Theodore
British Columbia2024#346#4Theodore
Ontario2024#210#3Theodore
Quebec2024#17#20Raphael

Raphael and Theodore in Canada, 2020–2024

Raphael slipped from #55 in 2020 to #56 in 2024 in Canada. Theodore climbed from #11 in 2020 to #3 in 2024 in Canada.

Raphael and Theodore ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#3 Theodore#56 Raphael20202021202220232024

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Raphael and Theodore in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Raphael does not appear on any complete England and Wales list in this range. Theodore climbed from #14 in 2020 to #9 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Raphael and Theodore ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#20#9 Theodore202020212022202320242025

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Raphael and Theodore in the USA, 2020–2024

Raphael climbed from #511 in 2020 to #420 in 2024 in the USA. Theodore climbed from #23 in 2020 to #4 in 2024 in the USA.

Raphael and Theodore ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#500#1000#4 Theodore#420 Raphael20202021202220232024

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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.