Conner

A boys’ name of Irish origin, meaning lover of hounds; or variant of connor.

Babies a year
1,015
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#864
down from #783
UK popularity
#3684
5 babies

How Conner has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#185#560#935201520202025#864

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#256
2016#310
2017#335
2018#365
2019#373
2020#440
2021#512
2022#635
2023#739
2024#783
2025#864

Conner by the numbers

In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Conner. In the US, 1,015 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 3,205 babies in 2005, making it a 2000s name.

At its height, in 2005, about 1 in 660 American boys born that year was called Conner.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Conner. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Connorlover of hounds; wolf lover6,405 in the US (2017)
  • Connar15 in the US (2017)
  • Coner5 in the US (2017)
  • Cooperbarrel maker4,680 in the US (2017)
  • Conorlover of hounds; wolf lover1,127 in the US (2017)
  • Coltercolt herder; one who tends young horses142 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Conner

Names that are said the same way as Conner, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Konnorlover of hounds; a form of connor243 in the US (2017)
  • Konnerlover of hounds; a modern respelling of Connor180 in the US (2017)
  • Konorhigh desire or wolf lover; a form of Connor28 in the US (2017)
  • Kohner6 in the US (2017)
  • Khonner5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Conner

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