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Conard vs Connor

American parents have registered 236,262 Connors since 1880, against 763 Conards. Connor is still ahead, with 2,225 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Conard 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

Of the 115 years in which either name was published, Connor for 69 years and Conard for 46 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Conard Connor
Total US births 763236,262
Most in one year 2910,116
Babies in 2025 under 52,225
Estimated living today 190232,000
Median age today 7019
Peak year 19232004
Best rank 1,358th boys38th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked166th
First recorded 18901913
Girls / boys 0 / 7631,716 / 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 Conards alive today are over 70; half the Connors 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 Connor.