Raphael or William

William is the more popular boy name in Canada, #5 to #56 in 2024. William ranks #25 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Raphael does not make that list. William is the more popular boy name in the USA, #10 to #420 in 2024.

Raphael on its own page William on its own page

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 William, in that place's most recent complete year.RaphaelWilliam#1#100#250#500Canada#56 → #5 ↑51USA#420 → #10 ↑410Alberta#153 → #6 ↑147British Columbia#346 → #10 ↑336Ontario#210 → #12 ↑198Quebec#17 → #4 ↑13

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 William Ahead
Canada2024#56#5William
England and Wales2025unranked#25William
USA2024#420#10William
Alberta2024#153#6William
British Columbia2024#346#10William
Ontario2024#210#12William
Quebec2024#17#4William

Raphael and William in Canada, 2020–2024

Raphael slipped from #55 in 2020 to #56 in 2024 in Canada. William slipped from #3 in 2020 to #5 in 2024 in Canada.

Raphael and William ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#5 William#56 Raphael20202021202220232024

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Raphael and William in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Raphael 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.

Raphael and William ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#25 William202020212022202320242025

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Raphael and William in the USA, 2020–2024

Raphael climbed from #511 in 2020 to #420 in 2024 in the USA. William slipped from #5 in 2020 to #10 in 2024 in the USA.

Raphael and William ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#500#1000#10 William#420 Raphael20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

More head-to-heads with Raphael
Adam or RaphaelArthur or RaphaelCharles or RaphaelEdouard or RaphaelEmile or RaphaelJacob or RaphaelJames or RaphaelJules or RaphaelLaurent or RaphaelLeo or RaphaelLiam or RaphaelLouis or RaphaelLucas or RaphaelNathan or RaphaelNoah or RaphaelRaphael or TheoRaphael or TheodoreRaphael or Thomas
More head-to-heads with William
Adam or WilliamArthur or WilliamAsher or WilliamBenjamin or WilliamCharles or WilliamDaniel or WilliamEdouard or WilliamElijah or WilliamEmile or WilliamEthan or WilliamEzra or WilliamHenry or WilliamHudson or WilliamJack or WilliamJacob or WilliamJames or WilliamJules or WilliamLaurent or WilliamLeo or WilliamLevi or WilliamLiam or WilliamLogan or WilliamLouis or WilliamLuca or WilliamLucas or WilliamMateo or WilliamMichael or WilliamMiles or WilliamMuhammad or WilliamNathan or WilliamNoah or WilliamOliver or WilliamOwen or WilliamSamuel or WilliamSebastian or WilliamTheo or WilliamTheodore or WilliamThomas or WilliamWilliam or WyattWilliam or Zorawar

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.