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Conrad vs Consuela

American parents have registered 39,298 Conrads since 1880, against 2,010 Consuelas. Conrad is still ahead, with 770 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Conrad against Consuela, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Conrad Consuela

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

Conrad has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1973, when Conrad had 170 and Consuela had 107.

Side by side

  Conrad Consuela
Total US births 39,2982,010
Most in one year 770144
Babies in 2025 770under 5
Estimated living today 24,0001,600
Median age today 3250
Peak year 20251972
Best rank 417th boys881st girls
Rank in 2025 417thunranked
First recorded 18801904
Girls / boys 16 / 39,2822,010 / 0

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 Consuelas alive today are over 50; half the Conrads are over 32. That is 18 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 Conrad Consuela
England and Wales 1,4806
France 83045

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: Conrad and Consuela.