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Connor vs Conrad

American parents have registered 236,262 Connors since 1880, against 39,298 Conrads. Connor is still ahead, with 2,225 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Connor against Conrad, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Connor Conrad

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 146 years in which either name was published, Conrad for 106 years and Connor for 40 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Connor Conrad
Total US births 236,26239,298
Most in one year 10,116770
Babies in 2025 2,225770
Estimated living today 232,00024,000
Median age today 1932
Peak year 20042025
Best rank 38th boys417th boys
Rank in 2025 166th417th
First recorded 19131880
Girls / boys 1,716 / 234,54616 / 39,282

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 Conrads alive today are over 32; half the Connors are over 19. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Connor Conrad
England and Wales 53,2281,480
Scotland 9,855126
Ireland 1,681131
France 480830
Northern Ireland 1,22462
Belgium 29136
Poland 2492

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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