James
1.25k
Babies in 2024
-70%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 9.85k
-12%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name James
James peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (9,853 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 1,252 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
James reached its peak in 1997, when 9,853 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #2 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 1,252 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 141,878 boys have been officially registered with the name James in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 27,421 boys were registered with the name, starting from 4,167 in 2014 and ending at 1,252 in 2024.