Conor
Conor was given to 292 boys in 2025, #845 among boys’ names; 27,449 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,800 Americans named Conor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 10 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Conor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Conor mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Conor is “a male given name from Irish.” Its etymology gives the sense “lover of hounds” (Conchobar).
From Irish Conchúr, from Old Irish Conchobar (“lover of hounds”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Conor?
#845 among boys’ names, 2025
Conor fell from #474 in 2015 to #845 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.33 to 0.17 per 1,000.
1,263 babies in 1993, the peak
Conor peaked in 1993, when 1,263 babies were given it (1,250 boys, #232 among boys’ names). The 292 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 292 | #845 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 376 | #708 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 450 | #624 | 0.26 |
| 2022 | 513 | #574 | 0.29 |
| 2021 | 646 | #464 | 0.37 |
| 2020 | 744 | #404 | 0.43 |
| 2019 | 752 | #412 | 0.42 |
| 2018 | 1,000 | #335 | 0.55 |
| 2017 | 1,130 | #308 | 0.61 |
| 2016 | 1,086 | #323 | 0.57 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 629 | #474 | 0.33 |
| 2014 | 482 | #579 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 452 | #573 | 0.24 |
| 2012 | 447 | #574 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 472 | #540 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 489 | #529 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 525 | #512 | 0.26 |
| 2008 | 529 | #515 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 528 | #499 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 519 | #500 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 514 | #485 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 571 | #455 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 648 | #401 | 0.33 |
| 2002 | 676 | #384 | 0.35 |
| 2001 | 702 | #375 | 0.36 |
| 2000 | 726 | #365 | 0.37 |
| 1999 | 718 | #364 | 0.37 |
| 1998 | 811 | #333 | 0.42 |
| 1997 | 826 | #321 | 0.44 |
| 1996 | 829 | #318 | 0.44 |
| 1995 | 851 | #313 | 0.45 |
| 1994 | 866 | #305 | 0.45 |
| 1993 | 1,250 | #232 | 0.64 |
| 1992 | 924 | #290 | 0.46 |
| 1991 | 701 | #345 | 0.35 |
| 1990 | 468 | #457 | 0.23 |
| 1989 | 422 | #458 | 0.21 |
| 1988 | 412 | #445 | 0.22 |
| 1987 | 356 | #467 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 255 | #556 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 200 | #619 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 213 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 194 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 220 | #579 | 0.12 |
| 1981 | 206 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 198 | #620 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 171 | #654 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 151 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 82 | #940 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 29 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,615 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,885 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,045 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,921 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,719 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,431 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,304 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,812 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,645 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,695 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,093 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,539 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,415 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Conor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Conor has been given almost only to boys: 69 girls in 65 years of records.
Girls and boys named Conor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Conor, and how old are they?
26,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 27,449 Americans ever recorded as Conor. The median Conor alive today is 23 years old; half are between 10 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 23,662 people named Conor (118 women and girls, 23,544 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,152 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 28 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 661 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,490 |
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 Conor born?
The states with the most babies named Conor are New York, Massachusetts and California, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 39 | #435 | 1.8× |
| Massachusetts | 26 | #234 | 3.6× |
| California | 23 | #964 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 17 | #453 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 16 | #891 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #598 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 14 | #653 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #673 | 1.5× |
| Connecticut | 12 | #270 | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 11 | #766 | 1.4× |
Where Conor is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Conor is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1961 it was given 3.6 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 Conor 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 327,953 babies since 1880, Conor is the third most given (8.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 292 of their 2,855 babies (10%), the second most given that year.
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 Conor
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 Conor and names like it
- Compare Conor and ConnorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sConor peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Conor since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Conor: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Conor.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Conor alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.