Conner
Feminine · “Middle English conner”
Conner is given to boys far more often — 56,395 boys against 867 girls since 1880. See Conner as a boy name
Connor and Conner are two different names that fell together. One is Irish and means something like hound-lover; the other is an English job title, and a conner was a real official whose work was tasting the ale.
How old is the name Conner?
Conner first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Conner alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 900 people named Conner are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Conner most popular?
Conner peaked in 1994, reaching #1905 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 8,202 places below that high. See the whole 1994 chart.
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Where it comes from
From O Conchobhair to Conner
The story of Conner
The ale-conner was an actual office. English towns appointed officials to test the quality and the price of beer and bread, and the City of London still swears in ale-conners ceremonially. The occupational surname Conner comes from that family of words, meaning one who examines or proves. Quite separately, the Irish O Conchobhair produced Connor, one of the largest surnames in Ireland, whose first element is the word for a hound, the prestige animal of Irish heroic naming and the same element in Conall and in Cuchulainn. American parents choosing the name in the 1990s were choosing a sound, and the two spellings do not track the two origins at all: families with Irish surnames write Conner, families with no Irish connection write Connor, and the record now holds one name where the language holds two.
Meaningscholars disagree
Middle English conner, an inspector or tester
Conner is an English occupational surname from a word meaning to examine or test, used of official inspectors, and it is also a common respelling of the Irish Connor, from O Conchobhair, whose first element is generally taken as cu, a hound. The two are separate names sharing a modern spelling. This spelling's female peak is 1994.
How the name formed
- O Conchobhair
- Connor
- Conner
Related forms: Conchobhar · Connor
Pronouncing Conner
KON-er
Two syllables, stress on the first. Conner and Connor are homophones in American speech.
Nicknames for Conner
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
- 1990
- Most girls named
- 199474 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1905reached in 1994
- Change vs 2024
- −10.0%9 in 2025, from 10
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.
Conner in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Conchobhar in Irish — related form
- Connor in English — spelling variant
Conners among us
people named Conner are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Conner
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shawntel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Conner's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shawntel climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shawntel's path sketches the road Conner is walking now.
Conner 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
Conner beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Conner in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Connie is a ready female short form with a long history.
- Two syllables, spelled as heard.
- Both possible origins are documented and interesting.
- The name is overwhelmingly male in American use.
- Connor is the more common spelling of the two.
- The 1994 female peak is small and narrow.
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Feminine · #10107 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Conners are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Conner are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Conner in 2025?
- Conner ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Conner?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Conner — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Conner with classmates?
- Conner will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Conner
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