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Connor-James

Gender
Boy
Say it
KON-er-JAYMZ
Origin
Irish
UK rank, 2025
#5,065 for boys

Connor-James is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “lover of hounds + heel-holder, supplanter”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).

What does Connor-James mean?

Irish: Connor + James

“lover of hounds + heel-holder, supplanter”

Joins Connor (Irish, “lover of hounds”) and James (Hebrew, “heel-holder, supplanter”).

Meanings borrowed from Connor and James.

Is Connor-James a girl's or a boy's name?

Connor-James is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Connor-James in the UK?

Rank in 2025
5,065th among boys
Babies in 2025
3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Connor-James, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2013, with 13 boys.

Half of all the boys named Connor-James in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.

2004Busiest: 13 in 20132025
Connor-James in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20253#5,065
20240–
20230–
20223#5,017
20210–
20200–
20190–
20184#4,169
20174#4,161
20163#5,015
20159#2,425
20143#4,829
201313#1,799
20125#3,572
20119#2,311
20108#2,534
20098#2,445
20083#4,615
20073#4,486
20060–
20050–
20044#3,147

Names like Connor-James

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Connor-James: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/connor-james, updated 20 October 2026.