Arthur or Harry

Arthur is the more popular boy name in Canada, #18 to #435 in 2024. Arthur is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #5 to #19 in 2025. Arthur is the more popular boy name in the USA, #105 to #777 in 2024.

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 Harry, in that place's most recent complete year.ArthurHarry#1#250#500#750#1000Canada#18 → #435 ↓417England and Wales#5 → #19 ↓14USA#105 → #777 ↓672Ontario#50 → #447 ↓397Quebec#7 → #183 ↓176

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 Harry Ahead
Canada2024#18#435Arthur
England and Wales2025#5#19Arthur
USA2024#105#777Arthur
Alberta2024#30unrankedArthur
British Columbia2024#38unrankedArthur
Ontario2024#50#447Arthur
Quebec2024#7#183Arthur

Arthur and Harry in Canada, 2020–2024

Arthur climbed from #26 in 2020 to #18 in 2024 in Canada. Harry slipped from #357 in 2020 to #435 in 2024 in Canada.

Arthur and Harry ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#250#500#18 Arthur#435 Harry20202021202220232024

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Arthur and Harry in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Arthur slipped from #3 in 2020 to #5 in 2025 in England and Wales. Harry slipped from #8 in 2020 to #19 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Arthur and Harry ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#5 Arthur#19 Harry202020212022202320242025

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Arthur and Harry in the USA, 2020–2024

Arthur climbed from #163 in 2020 to #105 in 2024 in the USA. Harry slipped from #720 in 2020 to #777 in 2024 in the USA.

Arthur and Harry ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#500#1000#105 Arthur#777 Harry20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

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.