John-James

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about John-James: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

John-James: Recorded since 1998, it reached #237 in 2015, and it stood at #3,256 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
24times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#237highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1998–2025

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2419
2002	#3225
2007	#2741
2010	#2199
2011	#999
2012	#1152
2013	#1339
2014	#1630
2015	#1511
2016	#1804
2017	#2512
2018	#1284
2019	#2266
2020	#1723
2021	#3017
2022	#2529
2023	#2813
2024	#3254
2025	#3256

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 19 of the 28 years from 1998 to 2025.

In 2023: #395 among boys in Northern Ireland, #2813 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1998–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2419 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2011–2023
Highest recorded position: #237 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2015 (recorded 2011–2023).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #3256 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

John-James appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 216 births with the name.

John-James across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

John-James's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2419 (1998)	#999 (2011)	#3256 (2025)	19 of 28	216 (1998–2025)	27 (2011)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#311 (2011)	#237 (2015)	#395 (2023)	5 of 13	21 (2011–2023)	8 (2015)

John-James by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with John-James in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	4	1 of 10	4
2000s	9	2 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	157	10 of 10	16
2020s	46	6 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

John-James appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #237 in Northern Ireland in 2015.

John-James's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#3256	6	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2529	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1723	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2266	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1284	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1511	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1630	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1339	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1152	23	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#999	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#237	8	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#311	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where John-James is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded John-James, between 1998 and 2025, in 19 of those 28 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1998–2025	19	#999 in 2011
Northern Ireland	2011–2023	5	#237 in 2015

No registrar recorded it for 4 years after 2002; it appears again in 2007.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1998 and 2025, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #237, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 27 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 13 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

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Jordan-Lee · #241, 17y
Michel · #243, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Iestyn · #237, 30y
Lily-May · #237, 30y
Sierra · #237, 27y
Aiza · #236, 27y

John-James was ranked #237 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2015. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Abel#237
Ashton#237
Brendan#237
Cathan#237
Adrian#259
Bentley#259
Brian#259
Brogan#259

John-James and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed John-James without appearing here.

John-James moved ahead of

Graeme
In 2010 they stood at #3225 and #2636 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #999 and #4647.
Garry
In 2009 they stood at #2741 and #2211 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #2199 and #4678.
Nicola
In 2010 they stood at #3225 and #3225 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #999 and #3300.
Glenn
In 2022 they stood at #3017 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #4991.

Moved ahead of John-James

Filip
In 2001 they stood at #2419 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #3225 and #1128.
Carol
In 2024 they stood at #2813 and #3523 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2025 that had become #3256 and #2133.
Fredrik
In 2016 they stood at #1804 and #2027 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #2512 and #1470.
Aksel
In 2018 they stood at #1284 and #1382 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2266 and #1253.

Moved the opposite way to John-James

Braxton
Between 2010 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, John-James went from #2199 to #3256 while Braxton went from #4678 to #2014.
Rune
Between 2013 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, John-James went from #1339 to #3256 while Rune went from #4685 to #1124.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #237 in Northern Ireland in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

John-James

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

John-James across 2 official records

John-James by decade in England and Wales · Boys

John-James appears in

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John-James at a glance

John-James across 2 official records

John-James by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside John-James

John-James and the names beside it

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