Connor

28,409 people in the United States were counted with the surname Connor in the 2020 census, making it the 1,218th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,500.

By the numbers

People: 28,409
Rank: 1,218th
How common: 1 in 10,500
Per 100,000: 9.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

The first name is from Irish Conchúr, Conchobhar, from Old Irish Conchobar (“lover of hounds”). The surname is from Irish Ó Conchúir (“descendant of Conchúr”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Connor described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 78.2%
Black, not Hispanic 12.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Connor

Kit Connor (born 2004)British actor
Keegan Connor Tracy (born 1971)Canadian actress
Chris Connor (1927–2009)American jazz singer
Kyle Connor (born 1996)American ice hockey player
Keith Connor (born 1957)British athlete
Kenneth Connor (1918–1993)English actor
George Connor (1906–2001)racecar driver
Terry Connor (born 1962)English footballer and manager

People named Connor with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Connor

Also a first name

Connor has been given to 236,262 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2004. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.