Connor
Connor was given to 2,211 boys in 2025, #166 among boys’ names; 236,262 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 232,000 Americans named Connor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Connor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Connor mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Connor is “a male given name from Irish.” Its etymology gives the sense “lover of hounds” (Conchobar).
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”).
/ˈkɑnəɹ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Connor?
#166 among boys’ names, 2025
Connor fell from #55 in 2015 to #166 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.5 to 1.3 per 1,000.
10,116 babies in 2004, the peak
Connor peaked in 2004, when 10,116 babies were given it (10,049 boys, #38 among boys’ names). The 2,225 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,211 | #166 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 2,611 | #136 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 2,861 | #126 | 1.7 |
| 2022 | 3,213 | #118 | 1.8 |
| 2021 | 3,764 | #98 | 2.2 |
| 2020 | 4,414 | #78 | 2.6 |
| 2019 | 5,161 | #68 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 6,086 | #58 | 3.4 |
| 2017 | 6,422 | #56 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7,037 | #54 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6,772 | #55 | 3.5 |
| 2014 | 7,231 | #52 | 3.8 |
| 2013 | 7,117 | #56 | 3.8 |
| 2012 | 6,983 | #59 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 7,410 | #54 | 3.9 |
| 2010 | 8,051 | #49 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 8,101 | #52 | 4.1 |
| 2008 | 7,817 | #57 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 8,330 | #55 | 4.0 |
| 2006 | 8,676 | #53 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 9,321 | #48 | 4.7 |
| 2004 | 10,049 | #38 | 5.1 |
| 2003 | 9,670 | #43 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 8,409 | #47 | 4.3 |
| 2001 | 8,082 | #49 | 4.2 |
| 2000 | 7,530 | #50 | 3.8 |
| 1999 | 7,597 | #48 | 4.0 |
| 1998 | 7,906 | #47 | 4.1 |
| 1997 | 7,140 | #52 | 3.8 |
| 1996 | 6,911 | #54 | 3.6 |
| 1995 | 6,619 | #55 | 3.5 |
| 1994 | 6,318 | #59 | 3.3 |
| 1993 | 6,452 | #57 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 4,609 | #80 | 2.3 |
| 1991 | 2,462 | #133 | 1.2 |
| 1990 | 1,377 | #221 | 0.67 |
| 1989 | 937 | #266 | 0.47 |
| 1988 | 787 | #293 | 0.41 |
| 1987 | 585 | #342 | 0.31 |
| 1986 | 276 | #536 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 177 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 154 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 142 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 89 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 95 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,189 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 25 | #1,956 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,435 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,551 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,614 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,138 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,449 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,321 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,230 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,597 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,811 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,294 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,694 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,149 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,156 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,176 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,716 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,064 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,803 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,414 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,644 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,822 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,823 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,238 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,282 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,596 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,234 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,106 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,855 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,528 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #3,940 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,025 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,806 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,280 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,096 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,581 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,869 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,314 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Connor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Connor has been given almost only to boys: 1,716 girls in 95 years of records.
Girls and boys named Connor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Connor, and how old are they?
232,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 236,262 Americans ever recorded as Connor. The median Connor alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 208,374 people named Connor (1,524 women and girls, 206,850 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 215,233 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 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 67 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 330 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 37,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 130,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 64,700 |
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 Connor born?
The states with the most babies named Connor are California, New York and Texas, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 183 | #204 | 0.6× |
| New York | 146 | #129 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 132 | #293 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 123 | #100 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 113 | #104 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 110 | #199 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 108 | #90 | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 102 | #61 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 100 | #137 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 77 | #165 | 0.9× |
Where Connor is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Connor is most over-represented in New Hampshire: since 1913 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Connor 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 333,768 babies since 1880, Connor is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,225 of their 2,897 babies (77%), again the 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 Connor
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 Connor and names like it
- Compare Connor and ConnerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sConnor peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Connor since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Connor: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Connor.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Connor alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.