Conrad
Masculine · “bold counsel”
Conrad is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 39,282 boys against 16 girls since 1880.
Conrad comes from two Old High German words that early medieval parents put together on purpose: bold, and counsel. It was carried by German kings and Holy Roman Emperors, traveled into Italian as Corrado and Polish as Konrad, and reached English in a form that has barely changed in centuries. Two firm syllables, no silent letters, nothing to spell twice.
How old is the name Conrad?
Conrad was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Conrad alive today was born around 1963, making them about 62 years old. About 24,500 people named Conrad are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Conrad most popular?
Conrad peaked in 1931, reaching #213 nationally. Today it ranks #417, 204 places below that high. See the whole 1931 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Kuonrat to Conrad
The story of Conrad
The name is Germanic, formed in the early medieval period from kuoni and rat, and it belonged squarely to the ruling class: Conrad I was elected king of the East Franks in the tenth century, and Conrads sat on the German throne repeatedly after him. Saint Conrad of Constance, a tenth-century bishop, carried it into the church calendar and kept it in circulation across Catholic Europe. It spread with German speakers — into Italy as Corrado, into Poland as Konrad, into the Low Countries as Koenraad — and arrived in Britain and America partly through Norman contact and partly through later German migration. In the United States it settled in as a steady, unspectacular given name and has been on the books ever since records began.
Meaning
bold counsel
From Old High German kuoni, 'bold' or 'brave', and rat, 'counsel' or 'advice' — the sort of compound name Germanic families built from qualities they admired.
How the name formed
- Kuonrat
- Konrad
- Conrad
Related forms: Konrad · Corrado · Konrad · Conrado · Koenraad · Konrád
Pronouncing Conrad
KON-rad
Stress on the first syllable. German speakers say KOHN-raht, with a clearer 'a' at the end; the English version is close enough that the name crosses borders without repair.
Nicknames for Conrad
High
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
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 2025770 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #213reached in 1931
- Change vs 2022
- +50.4%770 in 2025, from 512
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.
Conrad in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Konrad in German — same name
- Corrado in Italian — related form
- Konrad in Polish — same name
- Conrado in Spanish — related form
- Koenraad in Dutch — related form
- Konrád in Hungarian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Conrads among us
people named Conrad are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 2,218 born in 2025 was named Conrad
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 Hyman test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Conrad's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Hyman climbed just as high around 1911, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Hyman's path sketches the road Conrad is walking now.
Conrad is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Conrad is headed
Conrad should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High 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.
Conrad beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Conrad in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds, one syllable each, with no common English variant to correct on forms.
- More than a thousand years of continuous use, from medieval German kings through to children born this year.
- Works in German, Polish, Italian, Spanish and Dutch with only small adjustments — a name that travels without translation.
- Comes with real short forms already in use — Con, Connie, and the German Kurt — rather than ones you would have to invent.
- Familiar to nearly everyone who hears it, yet a child is unlikely to share it with a classmate.
- Konrad with a K is the standard spelling in German and Polish, so expect an occasional pause over which one you meant — a one-second correction, not a lifelong one.
- The name is still strongly represented among older generations in America, which means most adults will have met a Conrad who was well past childhood. That association fades quickly as more young ones arrive.
- Connie, the traditional short form, now reads as a woman's name to most American ears. Con and Kurt sidestep it if that matters to you.
- It is a hard-consonant name — K, N, R, D — which pairs well with softer surnames and can sound clipped against equally blunt ones. Worth saying the full combination out loud a few times.
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Frequently asked
- How many Conrads are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 24,500 people named Conrad are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Conrad in 2025?
- Conrad ranks #417 among US boy names in 2025, with 770 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Conrad?
- About 1 in every 2,218 US boys born in 2025 was named Conrad — 770 in all.
- Will my child share the name Conrad with classmates?
- Conrad will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Conrad
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