Con
Con was last recorded in 1974, when 5 babies were given it; 389 Americans have been recorded with it between 1892 and 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Con by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Con mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Con is “a male given name, a diminutive form of Conor, Conrad or Cornelius.”
Also “a female given name, a diminutive form of Connie.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Con?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,354, in 1974; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1925, the peak
Con peaked in 1925, when 13 boys were given it, #2,333 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | #5,354 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,760 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,064 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,026 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,673 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,092 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,698 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,146 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,563 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,081 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 5 | #4,056 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,636 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,266 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,013 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,480 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,494 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,272 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,082 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,351 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,529 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,566 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,425 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,912 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,435 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,279 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,921 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,195 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,177 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,212 | 9.9 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,216 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,756 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,155 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,744 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,449 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,691 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,070 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,070 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,264 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,314 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,756 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,333 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,314 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,526 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,060 | 8.3 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,008 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,917 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,918 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,285 | 7.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,940 | 5.9 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,091 | 46.8 |
| 1892 | 6 | #981 | 49.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Con a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Con has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Con: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Con, and how old are they?
An estimated 137 Americans named Con and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 684 people named Con (140 women and girls, 544 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Con rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 36,534 babies since 1880, Con is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,341 babies recorded by SSA was a Con (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Con
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Con and names like it
- Compare Con and CohenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sCon peaked in 1925.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Con.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Con alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.