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Conall vs Conrad

American parents have registered 39,298 Conrads since 1880, against 778 Conalls. Conrad is still ahead, with 770 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Conall against Conrad, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Conall Conrad

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

Conrad 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 2007, when Conall had 37 and Conrad had 261.

Side by side

  Conall Conrad
Total US births 77839,298
Most in one year 41770
Babies in 2025 19770
Estimated living today 77024,000
Median age today 1232
Peak year 20162025
Best rank 2,885th boys417th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045th417th
First recorded 19831880
Girls / boys 0 / 77816 / 39,282

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 Conrads alive today are over 32; half the Conalls are over 12. That is 20 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 Conrad
England and Wales 4831,480
Ireland 1,306131
Northern Ireland 70662
Scotland 296126

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 Conrad.