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Conall vs Conner

American parents have registered 57,262 Conners since 1880, against 778 Conalls. Conner is still ahead, with 286 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Conall against Conner, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Conall Conner

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

Conner has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1983, when Conall had 6 and Conner had 27.

Side by side

  Conall Conner
Total US births 77857,262
Most in one year 413,229
Babies in 2025 19286
Estimated living today 77056,000
Median age today 1219
Peak year 20162005
Best rank 2,885th boys127th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045th864th
First recorded 19831915
Girls / boys 0 / 778867 / 56,395

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 Conners alive today are over 19; half the Conalls are over 12. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Conall Conner
England and Wales 4832,737
Scotland 296628

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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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Conall and Conner.