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Conard vs Connie

American parents have registered 273,740 Connies since 1880, against 763 Conards. Connie is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Conard 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 1890, when Conard had 6 and Connie had 46.

Side by side

  Conard Connie
Total US births 763273,740
Most in one year 2910,112
Babies in 2025 under 553
Estimated living today 190198,000
Median age today 7067
Peak year 19231955
Best rank 1,358th boys35th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,067th
First recorded 18901880
Girls / boys 0 / 763266,783 / 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 Conards alive today are over 70; half the Connies are over 67. That is 3 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 Connie.