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Conard vs Conor

American parents have registered 27,449 Conors since 1880, against 763 Conards. Conor is still ahead, with 292 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Conard against Conor, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Conard Conor

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 114 years in which either name was published, Conor for 65 years and Conard for 49 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Conard Conor
Total US births 76327,449
Most in one year 291,263
Babies in 2025 under 5292
Estimated living today 19027,000
Median age today 7022
Peak year 19231993
Best rank 1,358th boys232nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked843rd
First recorded 18901961
Girls / boys 0 / 76369 / 27,380

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Conards alive today are over 70; half the Conors are over 22. That is 48 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Conard and Conor.