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Conner vs Conny

American parents have registered 57,262 Conners since 1880, against 572 Connys. Conner is still ahead, with 286 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Conner Conny

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 100 years in which either name was published, Conner for 67 years and Conny for 33 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Conner Conny
Total US births 57,262572
Most in one year 3,22923
Babies in 2025 286under 5
Estimated living today 56,000440
Median age today 1963
Peak year 20051960
Best rank 127th boys2,989th girls
Rank in 2025 864thunranked
First recorded 19151931
Girls / boys 867 / 56,395413 / 159

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 Connys alive today are over 63; half the Conners are over 19. That is 44 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 Conner Conny
England and Wales 2,7373

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: Conner and Conny.