Conal
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Conal has been given to 126 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 1995, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Conal, 2021
1 in 678,000
Conal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Conal?
Conal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Conal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Conal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Conals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Conal was born before 1999 — so the typical Conal is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 32.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 126
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (41).
Is Conal 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1995 (10)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.6% average annual change
Spellings of Conal
Conal is not the most common spelling — Donald is, with 51.2% against Conal's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Conal around the world
Where Conal 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.
- England & Wales1996–2025#3,684in 2025
- Scotland1991–2024#535in 2024
- Northern Ireland1997–2024#404in 2024
- Ireland1964–2025#676in 2025
- Canada1997–1998#1,561in 1998
- South Australia1981–1997#543in 1997
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Conal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Conal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Conal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.