Primarily a boy's name · 99% boys
Connor is an Irish male given name, anglicised from the compound Irish word Conchobhar, meaning "lover of hounds", or "lover of wolves".
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Connor yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Connor is down 64% across the decade, the second-sharpest decline in this batch behind Blake. It peaked hard and specifically: 10,049 births in 2004 at rank 38, the highest single-year count of any name in this slice, now reduced to 2,606 at rank 136. First recorded in 1913, with 234,024 births almost entirely accumulated between 1990 and 2010. No origin is listed, and the bearers are all athletes born in the 1990s — Connor McDavid, born 1997, Connor Wickham, Connor Roberts — which is to say they are the generation the name produced rather than the reason for it. A name that concentrated inside two decades becomes a reliable age marker, and that is precisely what makes it hard to choose now.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 7 | #2,315 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,870 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,582 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,097 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,282 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,807 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,026 |
| 1922 | 6 | #3,942 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,531 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,068 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,857 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,108 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,235 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,918 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,586 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,597 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,285 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,283 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,407 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,239 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,825 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,823 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,645 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,388 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,415 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,914 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,927 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,803 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,065 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,718 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,181 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,157 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,151 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,695 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,294 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,810 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,302 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,598 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,230 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,323 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,300 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,262 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,142 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,172 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,554 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,437 |
| 1977 | 25 | #1,956 |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,177 |
| 1979 | 64 | #1,119 |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,031 |
| 1981 | 95 | #923 |
| 1982 | 89 | #953 |
| 1983 | 141 | #726 |
| 1984 | 157 | #697 |
| 1985 | 177 | #662 |
| 1986 | 276 | #536 |
| 1987 | 584 | #342 |
| 1988 | 785 | #294 |
| 1989 | 936 | #266 |
| 1990 | 1,377 | #221 |
| 1991 | 2,462 | #133 |
| 1992 | 4,609 | #80 |
| 1993 | 6,453 | #57 |
| 1994 | 6,318 | #59 |
| 1995 | 6,619 | #55 |
| 1996 | 6,911 | #54 |
| 1997 | 7,140 | #52 |
| 1998 | 7,906 | #47 |
| 1999 | 7,597 | #48 |
| 2000 | 7,529 | #50 |
| 2001 | 8,082 | #49 |
| 2002 | 8,409 | #47 |
| 2003 | 9,670 | #43 |
| 2004 | 10,049 | #38 |
| 2005 | 9,321 | #48 |
| 2006 | 8,676 | #53 |
| 2007 | 8,330 | #55 |
| 2008 | 7,816 | #57 |
| 2009 | 8,101 | #52 |
| 2010 | 8,051 | #49 |
| 2011 | 7,410 | #54 |
| 2012 | 6,982 | #59 |
| 2013 | 7,116 | #56 |
| 2014 | 7,231 | #52 |
| 2015 | 6,769 | #55 |
| 2016 | 7,037 | #54 |
| 2017 | 6,421 | #56 |
| 2018 | 6,086 | #58 |
| 2019 | 5,160 | #68 |
| 2020 | 4,413 | #78 |
| 2021 | 3,764 | #98 |
| 2022 | 3,210 | #118 |
| 2023 | 2,859 | #126 |
| 2024 | 2,606 | #136 |
