Conan
Conan was given to 98 boys in 2025, #1,678 among boys’ names; 2,438 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,290 Americans named Conan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 9 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Conan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Conan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Conan is “a male given name from Irish.” Its etymology gives the sense “dog” (*kū).
From Irish Conán, from Middle Irish Conán, from Primitive Irish ᚉᚑᚅᚐᚅᚅ (conann), a derivative of Proto-Celtic *kū (“dog”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.
/ˈkoʊnən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Conan?
#1,678 among boys’ names, 2025
Conan rose from #2,281 in 2015 to #1,678 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 30.3 to 57.4 per million.
98 babies in 2025, the peak
Conan peaked in 2025, when 98 boys were given it, #1,678 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 76 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,678 | 57.4 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,016 | 44.1 |
| 2023 | 84 | #1,879 | 49.1 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,472 | 32.1 |
| 2021 | 75 | #1,986 | 42.9 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,193 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 51 | #2,558 | 28.4 |
| 2018 | 54 | #2,422 | 29.7 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,019 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,095 | 35.3 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,281 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,670 | 23.4 |
| 2013 | 52 | #2,403 | 27.5 |
| 2012 | 54 | #2,361 | 28.5 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,318 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,187 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,281 | 17.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,946 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,838 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,244 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,328 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,090 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,640 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,206 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,868 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,316 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,600 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,937 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,622 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 31 | #2,488 | 16.4 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,560 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,695 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,259 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,943 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,480 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,204 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 20 | #2,997 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,868 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,938 | 17.1 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,474 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,965 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,376 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 38 | #1,565 | 21.2 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,570 | 21.5 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,157 | 35.2 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,261 | 30.3 |
| 1979 | 49 | #1,324 | 28.5 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,273 | 30.5 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,187 | 33.5 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,154 | 35.1 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,211 | 31.4 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,184 | 31.2 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,297 | 26.3 |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,087 | 34.5 |
| 1971 | 33 | #1,499 | 18.7 |
| 1970 | 33 | #1,467 | 17.8 |
| 1969 | 26 | #1,614 | 14.5 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,902 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,377 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,497 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,027 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,439 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,707 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,364 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,078 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,564 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,093 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,327 | 3.3 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,828 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,324 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,216 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,746 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,396 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,385 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,777 | 2.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,745 | 5.0 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,662 | 5.5 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,527 | 6.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Conan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Conan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Conan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Conan, and how old are they?
2,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,438 Americans ever recorded as Conan. The median Conan alive today is 25 years old; half are between 9 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,839 people named Conan (12 women and girls, 1,827 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,889 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 89 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 537 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 391 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 456 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 812 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Conan born?
The states with the most babies named Conan are California, Texas and Arizona, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,525 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,124 | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 7 | #792 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,125 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,156 | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,173 | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | #1,816 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Conan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 31,592 babies since 1880, Conan is the third most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 98 of their 1,927 babies (5.1%), again the third most given.
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 Conan
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 Conan and names like it
- Compare Conan and CohenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sConan peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Conan since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Conan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Conan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Conan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.