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Connor vs Konnor

American parents have registered 236,262 Connors since 1880, against 5,886 Konnors. Connor is still ahead, with 2,225 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Connor Konnor

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

Connor has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Connor had 6,111 and Konnor had 241.

Side by side

  Connor Konnor
Total US births 236,2625,886
Most in one year 10,116269
Babies in 2025 2,22552
Estimated living today 232,0005,800
Median age today 1915
Peak year 20042012
Best rank 38th boys822nd boys
Rank in 2025 166th2,539th
First recorded 19131988
Girls / boys 1,716 / 234,546119 / 5,767

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 Connors alive today are over 19; half the Konnors are over 15. That is 4 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 Konnor
England and Wales 53,228240
Scotland 9,85510
France 48015

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 Konnor.