Popularity ranking · Canada

The 55 most popular Poets in Canada

This curated ranking covers the 55 largest poets in Canada, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Gilles Vigneault, Sylvia Plath and Lucan lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 551k people. Across all 55 entries the average audience size is 34k, and the largest, Gilles Vigneault, reaches around 230k people in Canada. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Canada who actively engage with each poet, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Canada and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 55, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Canada who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Canada. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Canada, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Canada. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Robert Louis Stevenson 26k 38.9 55.5% Poet
27 Mahmoud Darwish 25k 39.5 49.8% Poet
28 Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum 24k 39.1 0.0% Poet
29 John Keats 23k 44.8 100.0% Poet
30 Husayn ibn Ali 22k 33.2 45.1% Poet
31 Augustine of Hippo 21k 40.7 59.5% Poet
32 Charlotte Brontë 19k 27.8 31.2% Poet
33 Shane Koyczan 14k 38.5 87.5% Poet
34 Wole Soyinka 12k 31.2 53.8% Poet
35 Michel Houellebecq 12k 22.1 45.4% Poet
36 Miguel de Cervantes 11k 35.1 31.5% Poet
37 Octavio Paz 8.4k 41.5 38.2% Poet
38 Satguru 8.3k 38.8 45.1% Poet
39 Faiz Ahmad Faiz 8.2k 34.8 24.5% Poet
40 Anne Brontë 8.2k 25.2 12.6% Poet
41 Nizar Qabbani 7.9k 31.8 65.9% Poet
42 Guillaume Apollinaire 7.8k 37.4 48.7% Poet
43 Clarissa Pinkola Estés 7.7k 42.0 67.7% Poet
44 Thích Nhất Hạnh 7.7k 48.2 73.6% Poet
45 Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger 6k 33.9 51.2% Poet
46 Parveen Shakir 5.1k 44.6 57.5% Poet
47 Kazi Nazrul Islam 5k 29.4 50.8% Poet
48 Giacomo Casanova 3.9k 28.5 31.4% Poet
49 Muhammad Taqi Usmani 3.7k 22.4 48.5% Poet
50 Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi 3.6k 36.4 45.2% Poet

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular poets compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Canada and ranks each poet by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest poet in Canada?

Gilles Vigneault currently leads with an estimated audience of 230k people in Canada.

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