Arthur or Charles

Arthur is the more popular boy name in Canada, #18 to #30 in 2024. Arthur ranks #5 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Charles does not make that list. Charles is the more popular boy name in the USA, #51 to #105 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

Arthur on its own page Charles 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 Arthur against Charles, in that place's most recent complete year.ArthurCharles#1#50#100#250Canada#18 → #30 ↓12USA#105 → #51 ↑54Alberta#30 → #92 ↓62British Columbia#38 → #80 ↓42Ontario#50 → #76 ↓26Quebec#7 → #13 ↓6

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

PlaceYear Arthur Charles Ahead
Canada2024#18#30Arthur
England and Wales2025#5unrankedArthur
USA2024#105#51Charles
Alberta2024#30#92Arthur
British Columbia2024#38#80Arthur
Ontario2024#50#76Arthur
Quebec2024#7#13Arthur

Arthur and Charles in Canada, 2020–2024

Arthur climbed from #26 in 2020 to #18 in 2024 in Canada. Charles slipped from #24 in 2020 to #30 in 2024 in Canada. Arthur passed Charles in 2021.

Arthur and Charles ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#18 Arthur#30 Charles20202021202220232024

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Arthur and Charles in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Arthur slipped from #3 in 2020 to #5 in 2025 in England and Wales. Charles slipped from #88 in 2020 to #91 in 2021 in England and Wales.

Arthur and Charles ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#5 Arthur#91 Charles202020212022202320242025

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Arthur and Charles in the USA, 2020–2024

Arthur climbed from #163 in 2020 to #105 in 2024 in the USA. Charles slipped from #46 in 2020 to #51 in 2024 in the USA.

Arthur and Charles ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#125#250#51 Charles#105 Arthur20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

More head-to-heads with Arthur
Adam or ArthurAlfie or ArthurArchie or ArthurArlo or ArthurArthur or BenjaminArthur or EdouardArthur or EmileArthur or EthanArthur or FinleyArthur or FreddieArthur or GeorgeArthur or HarryArthur or HenryArthur or JackArthur or JacobArthur or JamesArthur or JudeArthur or JulesArthur or LaurentArthur or LeoArthur or LeviArthur or LiamArthur or LoganArthur or LouisArthur or LucaArthur or LucasArthur or MohammedArthur or MuhammadArthur or NathanArthur or NoahArthur or OliverArthur or OscarArthur or RaphaelArthur or RoryArthur or TheoArthur or TheodoreArthur or ThomasArthur or William
More head-to-heads with Charles
Adam or CharlesCharles or EdouardCharles or EmileCharles or JacobCharles or JamesCharles or JulesCharles or LaurentCharles or LeoCharles or LiamCharles or LouisCharles or LucasCharles or NathanCharles or NoahCharles or RaphaelCharles or TheoCharles or TheodoreCharles or ThomasCharles or William

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.