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Konner vs Konstantin

American parents have registered 5,790 Konners since 1880, against 668 Konstantins. Konner is still ahead, with 42 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Konner Konstantin

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 40 years in which either name was published, Konner for 38 years and Konstantin for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Konner Konstantin
Total US births 5,790668
Most in one year 32244
Babies in 2025 4220
Estimated living today 5,700660
Median age today 1611
Peak year 20092015
Best rank 728th boys2,722nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,941st4,857th
First recorded 19881967
Girls / boys 159 / 5,6310 / 668

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 Konners alive today are over 16; half the Konstantins are over 11. That is 5 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 Konstantin
England and Wales 79193

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 Konstantin.