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Conard vs Conner

American parents have registered 57,262 Conners since 1880, against 763 Conards. Conner is still ahead, with 286 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Conard 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

Of the 108 years in which either name was published, Conner for 56 years and Conard for 52 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Conard Conner
Total US births 76357,262
Most in one year 293,229
Babies in 2025 under 5286
Estimated living today 19056,000
Median age today 7019
Peak year 19232005
Best rank 1,358th boys127th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked864th
First recorded 18901915
Girls / boys 0 / 763867 / 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 Conards alive today are over 70; half the Conners are over 19. That is 51 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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