Connor
Connor stands at #166 nationally in 2025, cooling off gently. First recorded 1913, best year 2004, 234,546 bearers across the whole run.
What Connor carries
Connor · Celtic
“hound of slaughter”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Connor’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Connor, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Connor since 1913
Connor peaked in 2004 at #38; #166 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Connor is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Connor runs strongest in District of Columbia at 0.59% in 2025, then New Hampshire and Connecticut.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Connor
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Evan
#153 in 2025 · Celtic
Oscar
#223 in 2025 · Celtic
Owen
#31 in 2025 · Celtic
Finn
#206 in 2025 · Celtic
Callie
#175 in 2025
Cole
#182 in 2025
Carlos
#150 in 2025 · Teutonic
Chase
#192 in 2025
Browse: names starting with C · Celtic names · all names
About Connor
Where does Connor rank right now?
Connor stands at #166 nationally in 2025, cooling off gently. The chart above draws the whole run since 1913, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Connor mean?
The reference we cite records “hound of slaughter”, of Celtic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Connor?
Evan, Oscar and Owen sit nearest to Connor on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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