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Konner vs Konrad

American parents have registered 5,790 Konners since 1880, against 4,077 Konrads. But in 2025 it was Konrad that was commoner, 75 babies to 42.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Konner against Konrad, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Konner 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

Of the 105 years in which either name was published, Konrad for 75 years and Konner for 30 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Konner Konrad
Total US births 5,7904,077
Most in one year 32294
Babies in 2025 4275
Estimated living today 5,7003,600
Median age today 1622
Peak year 20092010
Best rank 728th boys1,652nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,941st2,006th
First recorded 19881913
Girls / boys 159 / 5,6310 / 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 Konners are over 16. That is 6 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 Konner Konrad
England and Wales 79645

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: Konner and Konrad.