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Conall vs Connie

American parents have registered 273,740 Connies since 1880, against 778 Conalls. Connie is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Conall against Connie, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Conall Connie

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

Connie 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 2023, when Conall had 29 and Connie had 39.

Side by side

  Conall Connie
Total US births 778273,740
Most in one year 4110,112
Babies in 2025 1953
Estimated living today 770198,000
Median age today 1267
Peak year 20161955
Best rank 2,885th boys35th girls
Rank in 2025 5,045th3,067th
First recorded 19831880
Girls / boys 0 / 778266,783 / 6,957

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 Connies alive today are over 67; half the Conalls are over 12. That is 55 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 Connie
England and Wales 4838,729
Ireland 1,306322
Scotland 2961,036
Northern Ireland 706588

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: Conall and Connie.