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Conrad vs Contessa

American parents have registered 39,298 Conrads since 1880, against 2,040 Contessas. Conrad is still ahead, with 770 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Conrad Contessa

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 1983, when Conrad had 212 and Contessa had 130.

Side by side

  Conrad Contessa
Total US births 39,2982,040
Most in one year 770130
Babies in 2025 770under 5
Estimated living today 24,0002,000
Median age today 3240
Peak year 20251983
Best rank 417th boys1,067th girls
Rank in 2025 417thunranked
First recorded 18801957
Girls / boys 16 / 39,2822,040 / 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 Contessas alive today are over 40; half the Conrads are over 32. That is 8 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Conrad and Contessa.