James or Nathan

James is the more popular boy name in Canada, #8 to #13 in 2024. James is the more popular boy name in England and Wales, #42 to #99 in 2025. James is the more popular boy name in the USA, #5 to #62 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 James against Nathan, in that place's most recent complete year.JamesNathan#1#25#50#100Canada#8 → #13 ↓5England and Wales#42 → #99 ↓57USA#5 → #62 ↓57Alberta#12 → #18 ↓6British Columbia#18 → #41 ↓23Ontario#11 → #16 ↓5Quebec#16 → #15 ↑1
PlaceYear James Nathan Ahead
Canada2024#8#13James
England and Wales2025#42#99James
USA2024#5#62James
Alberta2024#12#18James
British Columbia2024#18#41James
Ontario2024#11#16James
Quebec2024#16#15Nathan

James and Nathan in Canada, 2020–2024

James climbed from #10 in 2020 to #8 in 2024 in Canada. Nathan stood at #13 in 2024, matching its 2020 rank in Canada.

James and Nathan ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#20#8 James#13 Nathan20202021202220232024

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James and Nathan in England and Wales, 2020–2025

James slipped from #24 in 2020 to #42 in 2025 in England and Wales. Nathan stood at #99 in 2025, matching its 2021 rank in England and Wales.

James and Nathan ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#42 James#99 Nathan202020212022202320242025

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James and Nathan in the USA, 2020–2024

James climbed from #6 in 2020 to #5 in 2024 in the USA. Nathan slipped from #55 in 2020 to #62 in 2024 in the USA.

James and Nathan ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#5 James#62 Nathan20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

More head-to-heads with James
Adam or JamesArthur or JamesAsher or JamesBenjamin or JamesCharles or JamesDaniel 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 NoahJames or OliverJames or OwenJames or RaphaelJames or SamuelJames or SebastianJames or TheoJames or TheodoreJames or ThomasJames or WilliamJames or WyattJames or Zorawar
More head-to-heads with Nathan
Adam or NathanArthur or NathanBenjamin or NathanCharles or NathanDaniel or NathanEdouard or NathanEmile or NathanEthan or NathanHenry or NathanHudson or NathanJack or NathanJacob or NathanJules or NathanLaurent or NathanLeo or NathanLevi or NathanLiam or NathanLogan or NathanLouis or NathanLuca or NathanLucas or NathanMuhammad or NathanNathan or NoahNathan or OliverNathan or OwenNathan or RaphaelNathan or TheoNathan or TheodoreNathan or ThomasNathan or WilliamNathan or Wyatt

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.