girls:
69 births since 1992
#5647 (1st percentile)
boys:
26.7k births since 1961
#701 (85th percentile)
overall:
26.8k births since 1961
#1551 (80th percentile)
The name Conor is the #1,551 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 26,779 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 80.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #701 (84.7% percentile) for all time with 26,710 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,647 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 69 births since 1992.
Conor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1992 for girls).
The name Conor has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Conor reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 70.4% percentile (ranked #228) with 605 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 605 births per million (ranked 70.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Conor ranks #523 for boys (42.6% percentile) with 246 births per million, which is 40.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Conor reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #857) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Conor".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Conor", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 14 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Connor" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Connor..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Conor. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.4% confident that Conor is pronounced as KAH-ner, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KOH-ner, at 19.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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