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Conall vs Connor

American parents have registered 236,262 Connors since 1880, against 778 Conalls. Connor is still ahead, with 2,225 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Conall Connor

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

Connor 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 1983, when Conall had 6 and Connor had 142.

Side by side

  Conall Connor
Total US births 778236,262
Most in one year 4110,116
Babies in 2025 192,225
Estimated living today 770232,000
Median age today 1219
Peak year 20162004
Best rank 2,885th boys38th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045th166th
First recorded 19831913
Girls / boys 0 / 7781,716 / 234,546

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 Connors 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 Connor
England and Wales 48353,228
Scotland 2969,855
Ireland 1,3061,681
Northern Ireland 7061,224

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 Connor.