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Kona vs Konrad

American parents have registered 4,077 Konrads since 1880, against 681 Konas. Konrad is still ahead, with 75 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kona against Konrad, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kona Konrad

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

Konrad 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 2022, when Kona had 31 and Konrad had 65.

Side by side

  Kona Konrad
Total US births 6814,077
Most in one year 3994
Babies in 2025 2275
Estimated living today 6703,600
Median age today 1222
Peak year 20122010
Best rank 3,625th boys1,652nd boys
Rank in 2025 5,861st2,006th
First recorded 19631913
Girls / boys 243 / 4380 / 4,077

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 Konrads alive today are over 22; half the Konas are over 12. That is 10 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 Kona Konrad
England and Wales 3645
France 5220

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: Kona and Konrad.