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Connie vs Conrad

American parents have registered 273,740 Connies since 1880, against 39,298 Conrads. But in 2025 it was Conrad that was commoner, 770 babies to 53.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Connie 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

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Connie for 108 years and Conrad for 38 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Connie Conrad
Total US births 273,74039,298
Most in one year 10,112770
Babies in 2025 53770
Estimated living today 198,00024,000
Median age today 6732
Peak year 19552025
Best rank 35th girls417th boys
Rank in 2025 3,067th417th
First recorded 18801880
Girls / boys 266,783 / 6,95716 / 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 Connies alive today are over 67; half the Conrads are over 32. That is 35 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Connie Conrad
England and Wales 8,7291,480
Scotland 1,036126
Norway 786311
France 95830
Northern Ireland 58862
Ireland 322131

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: Connie and Conrad.