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Conrado vs Constance

American parents have registered 140,394 Constances since 1880, against 2,197 Conrados. Constance is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Conrado against Constance, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Conrado Constance

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

Constance 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 2007, when Conrado had 26 and Constance had 189.

Side by side

  Conrado Constance
Total US births 2,197140,394
Most in one year 374,451
Babies in 2025 9142
Estimated living today 1,50080,000
Median age today 4370
Peak year 19741950
Best rank 1,409th boys85th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd1,500th
First recorded 19121880
Girls / boys 0 / 2,197139,975 / 419

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 Constances alive today are over 70; half the Conrados are over 43. That is 27 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 Conrado Constance
France 529,175

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: Conrado and Constance.