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Connie vs Konnie

American parents have registered 273,740 Connies since 1880, against 1,089 Konnies. Connie is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Connie Konnie

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 2024, when Connie had 51 and Konnie had 6.

Side by side

  Connie Konnie
Total US births 273,7401,089
Most in one year 10,11261
Babies in 2025 53under 5
Estimated living today 198,000900
Median age today 6763
Peak year 19551963
Best rank 35th girls1,429th girls
Rank in 2025 3,067thunranked
First recorded 18801936
Girls / boys 266,783 / 6,9571,089 / 0

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 Konnies are over 63. That is 4 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 Connie Konnie
England and Wales 8,729140
Scotland 1,0364

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 Konnie.