Connelly
#12,182 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Connelly has been given to 359 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #12,182 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 22 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 66% girls, 34% boys all-time.
Babies named Connelly, 2025
1 in 474,000
Connelly 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Connelly over time
In 2025, Connelly went to 58% girls and 42% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Connelly?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,182
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Connelly sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Connelly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Connellys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Connelly was born before 2016 — so the typical Connelly is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 237
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (106).
Is Connelly 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
- −3,124
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −6,665
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,468
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.47×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 31.8%
- Peak was 2020 (22)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 50.2% average annual change
Spellings of Connelly
Connelly is not the most common spelling — Donnell is, with 81.2% against Connelly's 18.8%.
- Donnell81.2%1,026
- Connelly18.8%237
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.
Connelly by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Connelly
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Connelly
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.