Conner is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Conner isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Conner ranks 300. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 6 were named Conner. In the entire USA, approximately 54,284 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Conner. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
A variant of the English name Conor, Conner also derives from the Old Irish name Conchobar. It consists of Old Irish ‘cú’ for ‘hound, dog, wolf’ and ‘cobar’ for ‘desiring’, describing a ‘lover of wolfs’. Sometimes, Conner is also given the meaning of ‘hunter’.
Hunting has become... deeply embedded in various human cultures and was once an important part of the rural economies alongside forestry, and agriculture.
The name Conner may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Conner is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 1,033 men in Utah is called Conner. In total, that’s 1,318 people who feel addressed when the name Conner is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #241 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Conner as the answer a total of 54,284 times. This places Conner at #413 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Conner as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Conner is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Conner and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Conner, you can simply say:
Cat
Orange
Nut
Nut
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Conner
Conner
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Conner sounds like this:
