Kong vs Konnie
American parents have registered 1,089 Konnies since 1880, against 935 Kongs. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Kong 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
Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Konnie for 45 years and Kong for 30 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.
Side by side
| Kong | Konnie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 935 | 1,089 |
| Most in one year | 74 | 61 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 900 | 900 |
| Median age today | 34 | 63 |
| Peak year | 1993 | 1963 |
| Best rank | 1,321st boys | 1,429th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1979 | 1936 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 935 | 1,089 / 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 Konnies alive today are over 63; half the Kongs are over 34. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kong and Konnie.