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Con

Boys' name

Form of Conor or Connie

Con has been given to 389 babies in the U.S. since 1892. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1925, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Con, 1974

1 in 608,000

Con over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Con: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Conor or Connie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Con means

Con is a form of Conor or Connie.

Origin, language, and formation

Con is used in English and Azerbaijani.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Conor, Connie and John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 389 boys were recorded with the name Con between 1892 and 1974. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1925; its best national rank was #981 in 1892.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Con?

Con had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1974, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1974
1 in 608,000
5 of 3,039,803 births
Among boys only
1 in 314,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1974
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,407 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Con sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1974 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 421,407 children born in 1974 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Con. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Con was born before 1942 — so the typical Con is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
19.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
133
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1940s — 19.3% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Con rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1925 (13)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#981
1892

Con around the world

Where Con ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2025
    #344
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1988–2025
    #329
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1944–1997
    #379
    in 1997

Popularity data from Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Con by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#981
1892
Peak year
1925
13 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
1974
All-time count
389
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Con

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Con

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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