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Connor

#166 in the US in 2025

Where Connor stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#166boys’ names · US 2025

Connor was the 166th most registered boys' name in the United States in 2025, on 2,211 births.

peak 2004 · 10,049188019532025

Its moment was 2004, when 10,049 babies were given it. In 18 of the years between, the name fell under the 5-birth floor and the registrar published nothing — those years are the marks along the base of the chart, not gaps in the name's use.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#166US rank, 2025 (boys)
2,211US births in 2025
#38its best US rank, in 2004
2004peak year — 10,049 births
234,546US births since 1913
5,194NZ births since 1988
1,672E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Connor's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Connor was under the floor in 18 years of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Connor in the United States

188019001920194019601980200020200.0253506
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Connor in the United States, 1880–2025
boysgirls

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been falling — down 65% as a share of boys' births.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Connor in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Connor has been registered 5,194 times since 1988, peaking in 1999 with 303 births. It ranked #169 for boys in 2025 on 28 births.

19001920194019601980200020200.07381475
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Connor in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Connor in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Connor was registered 1,672 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2020 with 335 births. It ranked #299 for boys in 2025 on 152 births. Across those years it has been falling.

20200.058116
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Connor in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1920#2,76510
1930#4,0015
1940below floor<5
1950#3,3296
1960#2,68510
1970#3,2829
1980#1,03177
1990#2211,377
2000#507,530
2010#498,051
2020#784,414

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Connor most often since 1913. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
California20,185
New York13,923
Texas13,884
Pennsylvania12,328
Ohio10,996
Florida10,930
Illinois10,554
Michigan9,306
Massachusetts7,814
New Jersey7,282

Questions about Connor

How popular is the name Connor?

Connor ranked #166 for boys in the United States in 2025, on 2,211 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Connor most popular?

Connor peaked in 2004, when 10,049 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Connor rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all boys' births, Connor has been falling between 2016 and 2025 (-65%).

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 2004, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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