Daniel or James

James is the more popular boy name in Canada, #8 to #28 in 2024. James is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #42 to #62 in 2025. James is the more popular boy name in the USA, #5 to #16 in 2024.

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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 Daniel against James, in that place's most recent complete year.DanielJames#1#50#100#250Canada#28 → #8 ↑20England and Wales#62 → #42 ↑20USA#16 → #5 ↑11Alberta#16 → #12 ↑4British Columbia#17 → #18 ↓1Ontario#19 → #11 ↑8Quebec#112 → #16 ↑96
PlaceYear Daniel James Ahead
Canada2024#28#8James
England and Wales2025#62#42James
USA2024#16#5James
Alberta2024#16#12James
British Columbia2024#17#18Daniel
Ontario2024#19#11James
Quebec2024#112#16James

Daniel and James in Canada, 2020–2024

Daniel stood at #28 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada. James climbed from #10 in 2020 to #8 in 2024 in Canada.

Daniel and James ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#8 James#28 Daniel20202021202220232024

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Daniel and James in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Daniel slipped from #50 in 2020 to #62 in 2025 in England and Wales. James slipped from #24 in 2020 to #42 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Daniel and James ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#42 James#62 Daniel202020212022202320242025

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Daniel and James in the USA, 2020–2024

Daniel slipped from #14 in 2020 to #16 in 2024 in the USA. James climbed from #6 in 2020 to #5 in 2024 in the USA.

Daniel and James ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#5 James#16 Daniel20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

More head-to-heads with Daniel
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More head-to-heads with James
Adam or JamesArthur or JamesAsher or JamesBenjamin or JamesCharles or JamesEdouard or JamesElijah or JamesEmile or JamesEthan or JamesEzra or JamesHenry or JamesHudson or JamesJack or JamesJacob or JamesJames or JulesJames or LaurentJames or LeoJames or LeviJames or LiamJames or LoganJames or LouisJames or LucaJames or LucasJames or MateoJames or MichaelJames or MilesJames or MuhammadJames or NathanJames or NoahJames or OliverJames or OwenJames or RaphaelJames or SamuelJames or SebastianJames or TheoJames or TheodoreJames or ThomasJames or WilliamJames or WyattJames 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.