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Connel

Boys' name

Dog, hound + prince, chief, through Conall

Connel has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1995. 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 6 recorded.

Babies named Connel, 1995

1 in 610,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Connel: meaning, origin, and history

Dog, hound + prince, chief, through Conall

surname transfer

What Connel means

Connel belongs to the name family reached through Connel → Conall. Its meaning is “dog, hound + prince, chief”.

Origin, language, and formation

Connel is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Connel comes through Irish Conall.

Connel is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Conall.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Connel is pronounced /ˈkɔnəl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Connel between 1995 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1995; its best national rank was #7,966 in 1995.

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 Connel?

Connel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,660,254 births
Among boys only
1 in 317,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,850 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Connel 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 1995 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 422,850 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Connel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Connels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Connel was born before 1995 — so the typical Connel is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
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1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Connel 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 1995 (6)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,966
1995

Spellings of Connel

Connel is not the most common spelling — Connor is, with 67.3% against Connel'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.

Connel around the world

Where Connel 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
    1996–2007
    #4,333
    in 2007
  • Scotland
    1992–2006
    #584
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Connel 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
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Best rank ever
#7,966
1995
Peak year
1995
6 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Connel

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

CondonCondieConredConnisConantConneyConnanConnalConlonCondeCondyConyeConriGarnelLennelKarnelKornelJoanelTranelConnallCondaOffranelCongressConcetta

Sibling names for Connel

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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