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Konnor

Masculine · “lover of hounds”

Konnor is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 5,767 boys against 119 girls since 1880.

1988high 2012
#2539 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare52 boys in 2025

Konnor respells Connor, the Irish Conchobhar — lover of hounds, or a wolf-lover — and the king of Ulster in the Táin.

How old is the name Konnor?

Konnor first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Konnor alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 5,700 people named Konnor are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Konnor most popular?

Konnor peaked in 2010, reaching #810 nationally. Today it ranks #2539, 1,729 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Konnor

Conchobar mac Nessa is king of Ulster in the Táin, and the whole cycle turns on his household — Cú Chulainn is his nephew, Deirdre his ward. Irish naming used the hound as a warrior's image. Konnor is a modern respelling and appears in American records in current use.

Meaningscholars disagree

lover of hounds

Through Connor, from the Irish Conchobhar, generally read as con, 'hound' or 'wolf', and cobhar, 'desiring' or 'aiding'. Both elements have competing readings. The hound element is settled; the second is not. The K spelling is modern American.

How the name formed

  1. con cobhar
  2. Conchobhar
  3. Connor
  4. Konnor

Related forms: Conchobhar · Connor · Conor

Pronouncing Konnor

KON-ur

Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.

Nicknames for Konnor

Moderate

KonThe front clipping, matching the respelling
ConThe standard clipping, which collides with an English noun
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 1988–202526713402675219882025

US babies named Konnor per year from 1988 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#8101980s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1988
Most boys named
2012267 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#810reached in 2010
Change vs 2024
−33.3%52 in 2025, from 78
Konnor sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2012, with 267 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Konnor in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Conchobhar in Irish — related form
  • Connor in English — spelling variant
  • Conor in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Florida.

Konnors among us

5,700

people named Konnor are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 32,848 born in 2025 was named Konnor

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Konnor

#2539
Konnor on the 2025 chart
#146
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Konnor went to 52 boys in 2025, but Connor and Conor are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 2,555, which makes it the 146th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,393 places above the chart.

About 1 boy in 669 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 32,848 for Konnor 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

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Is it right for you

The Welton test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Konnor's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Welton climbed just as high around 1904, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Welton's path sketches the road Konnor is walking now.

40%chance Konnor will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Konnor, aligned on its peakWelton· peak 1904not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-30 yrs+70 yrsWelton · #2593Konnor today
Konnor today is about where Welton stood in 1919 — 15 years past a #810-sized peak. By 1934, Welton had settled around #1089.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Konnor 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 Konnor is headed

19882030

US babies named Konnor per year, 1988 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Konnor is easing off slowly — about 29% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.

Cooling-29% by 2030projected around #3,301 in 2030

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.

Konnor beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Konnor in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Konnorthis name52#2539Luigi52#2539Mazen52#2539Yanis52#2539Ebenezer52#2539

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That the king of Ulster in the Táin carries it is a first-rate anchor.
  • The hound element is genuine and vivid.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
What to consider
  • Connor is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
  • The second element is genuinely disputed.
  • At least four spellings of the sound are in circulation.

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Frequently asked

How many Konnors are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,700 people named Konnor are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Konnor?
Konnor is one of 3 recorded spellings. Connor is the more common one — 2,211 births in 2025 against 52 for Konnor.
How popular is the name Konnor in 2025?
Konnor ranks #2539 among US boy names in 2025, with 52 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Konnor?
About 1 in every 32,848 US boys born in 2025 was named Konnor — 52 in all.
Will my child share the name Konnor with classmates?
Konnor will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Konnor

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Luigi#2539 · Mazen#2539 · Yanis#2539 · Ebenezer#2539 · Mercer#2539 · Ramy#2539 · Ziyad#2539 · Ruston#2539

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