Conley
Masculine · “valorous hound”
Conley is given to both — 4,061 boys and 600 girls since 1880. See Conley as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Conley is the Irish Ó Conghaile — from cú, a hound, and gal, valor — so a valorous hound.
How old is the name Conley?
Conley first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Conley alive today was born around 1964, making them about 61 years old. About 2,500 people named Conley are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Conley most popular?
Conley peaked in 1905, reaching #699 nationally. Today it ranks #2516, 1,817 places below that high. See the whole 1905 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cú gal to Conley
The story of Conley
Irish naming treated the hound as a warrior's animal, and cú opens a whole family of names — Conley, Conan, Conall, Cú Chulainn. Ó Conghaile is anglicized as Conley, Connelly and Conneely. It entered American given-name use and appears in the registers in current use.
Meaning
valorous hound
From the Irish Ó Conghaile, built on cú, 'hound', and gal, 'valor'. Irish naming used the hound as an image of a warrior — Cú Chulainn is the hound of Culann. The elements are ordinary Irish and the reading undisputed.
How the name formed
- cú gal
- Ó Conghaile
- Conley
Related forms: Ó Conghaile · Connelly
Pronouncing Conley
KON-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Irish Ó Conghaile is oh-KON-ee-luh.
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
- 1882
- Most boys named
- 201272 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #699reached in 1905
- Change vs 2022
- −14.5%53 in 2025, from 62
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
- Connelly in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina.
Conleys among us
people named Conley are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 32,228 born in 2025 was named Conley
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
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.
Medium 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 boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That Irish used the hound as an image of a warrior is a first-rate fact.
- Lee is available as a short form with an enormous record.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It reads unmistakably as a surname.
- The Con clipping is an ordinary English noun.
- Conley and Connelly are both in circulation.
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Masculine · #2516 in the U.S.
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 2,500 people named Conley are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Conley in 2025?
- Conley ranks #2516 among US boy names in 2025, with 53 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Conley?
- About 1 in every 32,228 US boys born in 2025 was named Conley — 53 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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