Conner

Meaning: Inspector of weights and measures
Origin: English surname

Meaning: Lover of hounds, or lover of wolves
Origin: Irish — Variant of Connor

Boy's name · #864 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave

Popularity over time

Conner's best rank, #127, came in 2005; it has stepped well back to #864 today. Roughly 56,000 boys have been named Conner since 1915.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 35 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#1,565 in Canada (2025) · #2,176 in Austria (2025) · #3,684 in England & Wales (2025) · #3,414 in Ecuador (2024) · #703 in Scotland (2022) · #1,246 in Belgium (2022) · #296 in New Zealand (2011).

Famous Conners

Conner Frankamp — American basketball player (born 1995)
Conner Mantz — American long-distance runner (born 1996)
Conner Weigman — American football player (born 2003)
Conner Smith — American country music singer (born 2000)
Conner Rousseau — Belgian politician (born 1992)

In stories & tradition

Conner Kent — DC Comics superhero
Conner Cooper — Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (video game)

What Conners become

Among 68 notable people named Conner:

Sports figures appear 3.22× more often than among typical names — e.g. Conner Prince, American sport shooter (born 2000).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Connor (#166) and Conor (#845), Conner would rank around #130 with about 2,800 births last year — the newborns split about 79/11/10 across Connor, Conor, and Conner.

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