girls:
32 births since 2008
#5684 (1st percentile)
boys:
23 births since 2010
#4563 (0th percentile)
overall:
55 births since 2008
#7684 (1st percentile)
The name Connolly is the #7,684 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 0.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,684 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 32 births since 2008. For boys, it ranks #4,563 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 2010.
Connolly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (2008 for girls and 2010 for boys). Birth data for Connolly is available in 9 out of the 15 years between 2008 and 2022 (6 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Connolly has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (58.2% of all recorded births). In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Connolly were girls.
For girls, Connolly reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #947) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Connolly reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #903) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Connolly".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Connolly. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.4% confident that Connolly is pronounced as KAH-nuh-lee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAW-nuh-lee, at 13.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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