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Konnie vs Konstantin

American parents have registered 1,089 Konnies since 1880, against 668 Konstantins. But in 2025 it was Konstantin that was commoner, 20 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Konnie against Konstantin, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Konnie Konstantin

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 83 years in which either name was published, Konnie for 50 years and Konstantin for 33 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Konnie Konstantin
Total US births 1,089668
Most in one year 6144
Babies in 2025 under 520
Estimated living today 900660
Median age today 6311
Peak year 19632015
Best rank 1,429th girls2,722nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked4,857th
First recorded 19361967
Girls / boys 1,089 / 00 / 668

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 Konstantins are over 11. That is 52 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 Konnie Konstantin
England and Wales 140193

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: Konnie and Konstantin.