Conley
Feminine · “fierce as a hound”
Conley is given to both — 600 girls and 4,061 boys since 1880. See Conley as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Conley is an Irish surname with a hound in it — Ó Conghaile, built on a personal name that joins the word for a hound to one for valor. It is given to girls and boys alike in current records.
How old is the name Conley?
Conley first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Conley is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Conley are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Conley most popular?
Conley peaked in 2022, reaching #3073 nationally. Today it ranks #3342, 269 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Conghal to Conley
The story of Conley
Irish naming used the hound as its central image of a fighting man — Cú Chulainn is the hound of Culann, and Conall, Conan and Conghal all carry the same element. Ó Conghaile became Conley, Connelly and Connolly in English writing. The surname reached America with Irish emigration, and its use as a given name is recent, for girls as often as for boys, alongside Rowan, Quinn and Emerson.
Meaningscholars disagree
fierce as a hound
Irish Ó Conghaile is built on Conghal, joining con, a hound or wolf, to gal, valor. Whether the first element meant a hound or a wolf in the original naming is genuinely open, and Irish poetry used both as images of a warrior.
How the name formed
- Conghal
- Ó Conghaile
- Conley
Related forms: Ó Conghaile · Connolly
Pronouncing Conley
KON-lee
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation.
Nicknames for Conley
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 202253 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3073reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- +9.5%46 in 2025, from 42
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Conley in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ó Conghaile in Irish — related form
- Connolly in English — related form
Conleys among us
people named Conley are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 34,941 born in 2025 was named Conley
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Conley
- #3342
- Conley on the 2025 chart
- #908
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Conley went to 46 girls in 2025, but Konley is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 52, which makes it the 908th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,434 places above the chart.
- Conley46
- Konley6
About 1 girl in 30,909 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 34,941 for Conley itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Berlyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Conley's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Berlyn climbed just as high around 2004, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Berlyn's path sketches the road Conley is walking now.
Conley sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Conley is headed
Conley should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Conley beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Conley in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Irish meaning with a vivid image behind it.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- It works for a girl or a boy, which is useful before a birth.
- It reads as a surname to people meeting it in front of another one.
- Conley, Connelly and Conly all appear and only the first two are established.
- Being used for both sexes means forms and teachers will sometimes guess wrong.
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Frequently asked
- How many Conleys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Conley are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Conley?
- Conley is the most-used spelling in US records — 46 of the 52 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Konley.
- How popular is the name Conley in 2025?
- Conley ranks #3342 among US girl names in 2025, with 46 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Conley?
- About 1 in every 34,941 US girls born in 2025 was named Conley — 46 in all.
- Will my child share the name Conley with classmates?
- Conley will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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