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Conny vs Conor

American parents have registered 27,449 Conors since 1880, against 572 Connys. Conor is still ahead, with 292 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Conny against Conor, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Conny Conor

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 88 years in which either name was published, Conor for 59 years and Conny for 29 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Conny Conor
Total US births 57227,449
Most in one year 231,263
Babies in 2025 under 5292
Estimated living today 44027,000
Median age today 6322
Peak year 19601993
Best rank 2,989th girls232nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked843rd
First recorded 19311961
Girls / boys 413 / 15969 / 27,380

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 Conors are over 22. That is 41 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 Conny Conor
England and Wales 310,365
France 5330

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: Conny and Conor.