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Voici les 20 prénoms de bébé qui ont explosé en popularité en 2025 au Canada
L’un d’eux a fait un bond de 56 places en un an! 🚀
Si les Charlotte et les Noah ont fait fureur dans les pouponnières du pays durant la dernière année, certains prénoms de bébé ont quant à eux carrément explosé en popularité. Eh oui, selon les plus récentes données de Statistique Canada, quelques noms ont vu leur nombre de nouveau-nés bondir de plus de 40 % en un an.
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Mis à jour le 23 septembre dernier, le tableau de Statistique Canada recense chaque prénom inscrit à l'état civil au Canada, avec le nombre exact de bébés qui le portent. Le sommet du palmarès canadien a beau faire jaser, c'est plus bas dans le classement que ça bouge vraiment. Des prénoms doux comme Eliana, Eloise et Iris montent en flèche, tout comme Callum, Cooper et Rowan, des noms d'inspiration anglo-saxonne.
Pour dresser cette liste, Narcity a comparé le nombre de bébés ayant reçu chacun des 100 prénoms les plus populaires de 2025 avec celui de l'année précédente. Cette méthode permet de mesurer l'élan de chaque prénom par rapport à lui-même, peu importe sa place au classement. À noter que les données de 2025 sont provisoires, selon l'agence fédérale.
Les prénoms féminins qui ont le plus gagné en popularité
Eliana et Jind se partagent la tête avec une hausse de 43 % chacun, mais leur parcours n'a rien en commun. Eliana, déjà bien installée dans le palmarès, grimpe jusqu'au 17e rang. Avec 201 bébés de plus qu'en 2024, c'est d'ailleurs le prénom féminin dont le nombre de bébés a le plus augmenté. Jind, elle, fait le plus grand bond du classement chez les prénoms féminins : elle gagne 56 places pour faire son entrée dans le top 100 canadien.
- Eliana : +43 % (de 472 à 673 bébés), du 42e au 17e rang
- Jind : +43 % (de 191 à 273 bébés), du 145e au 89e rang
- Anaya : +36 % (de 217 à 295 bébés), du 122e au 81e rang
- Eloise : +26 % (de 398 à 503 bébés), du 57e au 36e rang
- Juliette : +25 % (de 367 à 457 bébés), du 62e au 48e rang
- Iris : +24 % (de 251 à 312 bébés), du 97e au 78e rang
- Lainey : +24 % (de 340 à 421 bébés), du 72e au 53e rang
- Lucy : +23 % (de 420 à 518 bébés), du 51e au 32e rang
- Amara : +18 % (de 246 à 291 bébés), du 104e au 83e rang
- Avery : +17 % (de 401 à 470 bébés), du 55e au 45e rang
Les prénoms masculins qui ont le plus gagné en popularité
Callum mène la parade avec une hausse de 36 %, assez pour faire son entrée dans le top 100 canadien. Il n'est pas seul dans cette situation : Atlas, Enzo et Julian se taillent aussi une place parmi les 100 prénoms les plus donnés au pays.
- Callum : +36 % (de 258 à 352 bébés), du 123e au 82e rang
- Atlas : +31 % (de 267 à 350 bébés), du 114e au 83e rang
- Cooper : +27 % (de 361 à 460 bébés), du 77e au 53e rang
- Rowan : +26 % (de 422 à 533 bébés), du 64e au 41e rang
- Elias : +25 % (de 451 à 565 bébés), du 57e au 36e rang
- Enzo : +21 % (de 284 à 343 bébés), du 108e au 85e rang
- Everett : +20 % (de 295 à 353 bébés), du 98e au 81e rang
- Leon : +18 % (de 367 à 433 bébés), du 75e au 61e rang
- Muhammad : +16 % (de 695 à 807 bébés), du 27e au 20e rang
- Julian : +16 % (de 261 à 302 bébés), du 118e au 100e rang
Muhammad est le seul de la liste qui figurait déjà dans le top 30 en 2024, ce qui rend sa progression d'autant plus notable.
Et les prénoms francophones dans tout ça ?
Même si les prénoms d'inspiration anglophone dominent la liste, quelques favoris bien de chez nous profitent eux aussi d'un bel élan à l'échelle canadienne. Henri et Arnaud ont chacun été donnés à 15 % plus de bébés en 2025, juste assez pour se hisser dans le top 100 du pays, respectivement au 93e et au 98e rang.
Du côté des prénoms féminins, Celine suit la même trajectoire avec une hausse de 15 %, qui lui permet de boucler le top 100 au 100e rang. Romy, elle, gagne 13 % et passe du 76e au 64e rang. Pour voir quels prénoms ont la cote dans la province seulement, tu peux consulter le top 100 des prénoms au Québec en 2025.
En dehors du top 100, certains prénoms plus rares ont même plus que doublé en un an, comme Nivaan, passé de 40 à 104 bébés, et Nawab, de 42 à 104. Ce genre de poussée soudaine n'est pas nouveau : au Québec, certains prénoms sont devenus populaires après un phénomène marquant, qu'il s'agisse d'une série télé ou d'une vedette du moment.
Bref, si le top 10 montre les coups de cœur d’aujourd’hui, les prénoms qui grimpent rapidement donnent plutôt un aperçu de ce qui s’en vient. Les Eliana, Callum et Atlas pourraient bien devenir les incontournables de la prochaine génération.
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Tackling homelessness will be a key challenge for incoming Ontario mayors, councils
Homelessness a key challenge for incoming mayors
The rise in homelessness is one of the most pressing issues mayors and councillors elected next week across Ontario will have to face as the struggle to fund housing, mental health and addiction services persists.
A seminal study from the Association of Municipalities of Ontario warned last year that the province was at a "tipping point" in the homelessness crisis.
It found nearly 80,000 Ontarians were homeless in 2024. That number rose to about 85,000 people in 2025 and the association expects it to rise again.
"Eighty-five thousand is breathtaking in the sense that it's shocking how big that number is in a province as wealthy as we are," said Riley Brockington, president of AMO, which represents the province's 444 municipalities.
More than half of those people have been homeless for more than six months, the association said.
The vast majority of Ontario's municipalities are struggling with the issue and it's eating up more and more of their annual budgets, Brockington said. Without the ability to run deficits, it puts municipalities in a bind.
Brockington, an Ottawa city councillor who was acclaimed in his ward ahead of Monday's election, said the province and the federal government need to step up with stable, long-term funding.
It's the only way to try to get a handle on homelessness, he said. "We're calling for a national housing strategy with some real money."
The AMO's ask is big: $11 billion over 10 years. That would cover supportive, transitional and community housing for 75,000 people, along with money for prevention programs.
The association is also asking for $2 billion over eight years to deal with the rise in encampments. There were nearly 2,000 encampments across Ontario last year, it said.
The encampments have been popping up all over the province, including in many smaller towns where there are no shelters.
"We believe every person in Ontario needs a safe place to call home every night, but it's very expensive," Brockington said. "This is why the burden cannot be on the shoulders exclusively of municipalities."
The frustrating part for municipalities, Brockington said, is the fact that every level of government agrees on the path forward: more housing, particularly supportive housing.
While municipalities are appreciative of every dollar from the federal and provincial governments, much of that comes in the form of time-limited funding, Brockington said.
"Municipalities need to be able to budget and have some assurances going forward that the money will still be there," he said. Otherwise, it will be the same scramble every year, he said, with little ability to plan long term.
A recent report from the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario said provincial spending on homelessness programs has fluctuated since 2020, before reaching a projected $948 million in 2026-27. But that figure is expected to decline to $708 million in 2028-29 because of time-limited funding, the report said.
Northern and rural Ontario are driving the growth of homelessness, which is increasing 37 per cent in northern Ontario and 31 per cent in mostly rural communities in one year, AMO found.
Another troubling statistic the association uncovered: about 20,000 youth are homeless across the province.
And on any given night in Toronto, more than 1,000 teens and children are in the city's shelters or on its streets.
For Mark Aston, the CEO of Covenant House Toronto, Canada's largest charity serving youth in crisis, prevention is key. Covenant House has a crisis shelter, offers transitional housing and wraparound support services including education and employment support.
"It is getting more difficult for young people to get out of that situation because of a whole bunch of things: affordability, the job market, and also acute crisis and disabling conditions that need co-ordinated specialized services to help young people," he said.
Covenant House has seen great prevention results by going into Toronto's schools, Aston said, adding that the program is very successful, with more than 90 per cent of at-risk young people avoiding homelessness.
"We have solutions, we just really need to get attention to this and do a bit of scaling," Aston said, arguing that the program should be in every single school in the province. Covenant House also has its own on-site school that helps youth complete their secondary education.
The reason is simple, Aston said. Between 30 to 50 per cent of adults experiencing chronic homelessness can trace their journeys back to their youth.
"That's when they first experienced homelessness," Aston said. "So if you don't solve the problem when somebody's young, it can become really entrenched, really pervasive."
For young people, the largest driver of homelessness is family pressure, conflict or breakdown, he said, while for adults the leading cause is eviction.
When a young person becomes homeless, early intervention is key. Aston said Covenant House gives them space to breathe, connects them with health-care workers, mental health professionals and tries to reconnect them with family -- but not necessarily the family that may have driven them away.
"If you can do that and you can maintain those connections and you can provide them with housing, with social supports, with community, it can really be life altering for those young people," he said. "You can change the trajectory of where they're going."
Aston has a message for all incoming mayors.
"I think the mayors across Ontario should make a commitment to end youth homelessness," he said.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 25, 2026.
By Liam Casey | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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Americans in Canada urge fellow expats to vote in high-stakes midterm elections
Americans in Canada urge fellow expats to vote
American Democrats living in Canada are prepared to shout their political choices from the rooftops ahead of next month's midterm elections — while some of those who back Republican candidates seem leery of speaking out fearing a backlash from their neighbours.
Tammy Wilsker Mermelstein, a Texas voter who moved to the Greater Toronto Area last year, will be voting in a U.S. election from Canada for the first time.
While she used to be a Republican and voted that way until 2016, Wilsker Mermelstein said she has never voted for U.S. President Donald Trump. She said it's crucial for people to vote this year as "Texas is in play."
"Texas has not elected a Democrat in high office for at least two decades, probably longer, and this is the first solid chance," she said. "They say every vote counts. This is really going to be an election where every vote matters, even in states where people aren't used to having their vote matter if they're in the minority."
Americans head to the polls on Nov. 3 for midterm elections which could see the Democrats seize control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives from the Republicans. Democratic control of one or both chambers could significantly alter the path of Trump's presidency, including the possibility of new impeachment proceedings against him, and investigations of some of his key allies and agency heads.
Expat participation in U.S. elections is typically low, though the Federal Voting Assistance Program estimates there were more than 430,000 eligible U.S. voters in Canada as of 2024.
The organization estimates turnout among Americans in Canada was about 10 per cent in the 2024 general election, while the domestic voting rate that year was about 76 per cent. The organization estimates the overall turnout among all eligible overseas U.S. citizens at 11 per cent.
Kathryn Sikkink, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who has volunteered with the U.S. Vote Foundation, said participation in voting abroad may be low because some citizens find it difficult. Some, she said, don't even realize they're eligible to vote.
The U.S. Department of State website says U.S. citizens can get an absentee ballot by mail, email or fax, or by downloading it from the internet, though options vary by state.
Most U.S. citizens can vote absentee for federal office candidates in U.S. primary and general elections. Some states also allow U.S. citizens living abroad to vote for local and state office candidates, and on referendums.
Georganne Burke, the chapter lead for Republicans Overseas in Canada, said it has been a "contentious year" as Americans living in Canada have watched "the back and forth" between the two governments over trade.
"They want to make sure that whatever's going on in the States stays kind of healthy in case they have to go back home. So people, they are more engaged, I think, than they have in the past," she said.
A dual citizen, Burke moved back to the U.S. a few months ago after spending 38 years in Toronto and Ottawa.
A Republican and Trump supporter, Burke said she estimates there is a roughly three-to-one Democrat to Republican ratio among American expats living in Canada.
"I know that most Republicans are very motivated to vote," she said. "They're very quiet about it. They don't talk because they're not received in a very friendly way in Canada, which is kind of unfortunate.
"Democrats are also motivated to vote, especially if they're in one of those toss-up states, like Michigan."
When The Canadian Press sought to speak with various American voters via social media pages and message boards, lots of Democrats stepped forward. Not one Republican did.
Burke said it's a civic duty to vote in elections. She also said while some of the things Trump says and does make her "cringe," she focuses on his accomplishments.
"A lot of the thing that he has done in the United States have made a huge difference for Americans, including dealing with the border problem in Mexico," she said. "And I know it drives people crazy, but he is reshoring, as he puts it, American industry to the United States to employ Americans. That's his job."
Trump's trade war with Canada has become a leading ballot box issue in some key states ahead of the U.S. midterms.
Trump rapidly escalated his trade war and rhetoric against Canada after trade negotiations fell apart in August. The president signed an order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America and the United States hit an array of Canadian goods with 50 per cent tariffs. A few weeks later, Ottawa responded with its own retaliatory duties.
Jessica Matwick, a dual citizen who lives in Ottawa and is involved with Democrats Abroad and Indivisible Ottawa, said every eligible voter should get out and vote "to put a stop to an unhinged administration and a legislative body that has abdicated their responsibility to keep the executive in check."
"The attacks on Canadian sovereignty and destructive tariff war are actions I cannot remain silent about," said Matwick, who moved back to Canada in late 2016 and votes in Virginia. "I still have family living in the U.S. and many friends who I am concerned about.
"My heart hurts knowing that the damage that has been done in a relatively short period of time will take years and years to repair."
Cody Littlefield, who moved to Canada from the U.S. in 2019 and now lives in Calgary, said he tries to vote in every election. A California voter, he said this election presents an opportunity for voters to send a message that what's happening in the U.S. "is not acceptable."
"The future of the country really matters to me," said Littlefield, adding that he and his family may eventually move back to the U.S.
"There are some people who will never go back and maybe they just really don't care about the domestic stuff, but I would say the foreign policy still does affect them."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 21, 2026.
By Catherine Morrison | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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