Adam or Ethan

Adam is the more popular boy name in Canada, #14 to #15 in 2024. Adam is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #26 to #54 in 2025. Ethan is the more popular boy name in the USA, #19 to #100 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

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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 Adam against Ethan, in that place's most recent complete year.AdamEthan#1#25#50#100Canada#14 → #15 ↓1England and Wales#26 → #54 ↓28USA#100 → #19 ↑81Alberta#14 → #7 ↑7British Columbia#37 → #7 ↑30Ontario#13 → #17 ↓4Quebec#12 → #34 ↓22
PlaceYear Adam Ethan Ahead
Canada2024#14#15Adam
England and Wales2025#26#54Adam
USA2024#100#19Ethan
Alberta2024#14#7Ethan
British Columbia2024#37#7Ethan
Ontario2024#13#17Adam
Quebec2024#12#34Adam

Adam and Ethan in Canada, 2020–2024

Adam climbed from #17 in 2020 to #14 in 2024 in Canada. Ethan stood at #15 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada. Adam passed Ethan in 2024.

Adam and Ethan ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#14 Adam#15 Ethan20202021202220232024

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Adam and Ethan in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Adam climbed from #34 in 2020 to #26 in 2025 in England and Wales. Ethan slipped from #36 in 2020 to #54 in 2025 in England and Wales. Ethan passed Adam in 2021. Adam passed Ethan in 2022.

Adam and Ethan ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#26 Adam#54 Ethan202020212022202320242025

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Adam and Ethan in the USA, 2020–2024

Adam slipped from #97 in 2020 to #100 in 2024 in the USA. Ethan slipped from #13 in 2020 to #19 in 2024 in the USA.

Adam and Ethan ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#125#250#19 Ethan#100 Adam20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

More head-to-heads with Adam
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More head-to-heads with Ethan
Arthur or EthanAsher or EthanBenjamin or EthanDaniel or EthanElijah or EthanEthan or EzraEthan or HenryEthan or HudsonEthan or JackEthan or JacobEthan or JamesEthan or LeoEthan or LeviEthan or LiamEthan or LoganEthan or LucaEthan or LucasEthan or MateoEthan or MichaelEthan or MilesEthan or MuhammadEthan or NathanEthan or NoahEthan or OliverEthan or OwenEthan or SamuelEthan or SebastianEthan or TheoEthan or TheodoreEthan or ThomasEthan or WilliamEthan or WyattEthan 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.