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Conny vs Conrad

American parents have registered 39,298 Conrads since 1880, against 572 Connys. Conrad is still ahead, with 770 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Conny against Conrad, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Conny 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

Conrad 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 1960, when Conny had 23 and Conrad had 281.

Side by side

  Conny Conrad
Total US births 57239,298
Most in one year 23770
Babies in 2025 under 5770
Estimated living today 44024,000
Median age today 6332
Peak year 19602025
Best rank 2,989th girls417th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked417th
First recorded 19311880
Girls / boys 413 / 15916 / 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 Connys alive today are over 63; half the Conrads are over 32. That is 31 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 Conrad
England and Wales 31,480
France 5830

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 Conrad.