How rare is the name Conor?

23,662 people in the United States have the first name Conor, about 1 in 12,764. It ranks #1,433 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CONOR

#1,433

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
23,662
About
1 in 12,764
This common or more
74.7%
Who bears it

Of the 23,662 people named Conor, 89.3% reported their origin as White, 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.1% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Conor peaked in 1993, when 1,263 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19612025
Peak year
1993
Births that year
1,263
In 2025*
292 ▼77%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 27,449 babies have been given the name since 1961. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Conor by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #660. The largest share of babies named Conor, 35.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#7,30880
1970s#3,045482
1980s#1,2082,676
1990s#6608,302
2000s#9395,949
2010s#8896,939
2020s#1,1643,021
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–802.6%
Millennials 1981–9630.6%
Generation Z 1997–1235.4%
2013 and later31.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Conor is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Conor has been most common in Massachusetts (3.5×), Connecticut (2.6×), and New Hampshire (2.6×), and least common in Alabama (0.15×).

24,953 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Conor, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Conor ranks #119,572 of 156,621, with 153 people. See Conor as a last name

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