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Conan

#1,678 in 2025Boys' name

Dog

Conan has been given to 2,438 babies in the U.S. since 1923. In 2025 it ranked #1,678 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 98 recorded.

Babies named Conan, 2025

1 in 33,800

Conan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Conan: meaning, origin, and history

Dog

Irish

What Conan means

Conan means “dog”, associated with kū.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Irish Conán, from Middle Irish Conán, from Primitive Irish ᚉᚑᚅᚐᚅᚅ (conann), a derivative of Proto-Celtic *kū (“dog”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Conan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Conan is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Conan comes through Irish Conán, Middle Irish Conán, Primitive Irish ᚉᚑᚅᚐᚅᚅ, Proto-Celtic *kū and Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Conan is pronounced /ˈkoʊnən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,438 boys were recorded with the name Conan between 1923 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 98 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,087 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,193 in 2020 to #1,678 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,281 in 2015 to #1,678 in 2025.

How common is Conan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 33,800
98 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 17,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,678
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Conan 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 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Conan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Conans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Conan was born before 1999 — so the typical Conan is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,415
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (488).

Is Conan 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
+338
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+515
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+603
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.69×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (98)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,087
1972

Spellings of Conan

Conan is not the most common spelling — Logan is, with 32.7% against Conan's 0.21%.

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.

Where Conan is used

Across 2016–2025, Conan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 46,310 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Conan around the world

Where Conan 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1985–2025
    #367
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #61
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1967–2025
    #232
    in 2025
  • France
    1992–2025
    #3,133
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1962–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Conan

People whose public names include Conan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Conan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Conan. Linked forms have their own page here.

KenanCynanCynon

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Conan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,678
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 515
Best rank ever
#1,087
1972
Peak year
2025
98 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,438
Count in 2025
98

Names similar to Conan

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

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Names with a curve like Conan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Conan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Conan

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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