Conor is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Conor 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, Conor ranks 404. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Conor. In the entire USA, approximately 23,878 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Conor. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Conor is an anglicized name of Irish origin and means “Lover of wolves” or “Lover of hounds”. The name stems from the compound word “Conchobhar”, which is composed of the elements “con” meaning “hound” or “wolf” and “chobhar” meaning “lover”. Sometimes, the name is taken to also mean “hunter”.
This spelling... is a modern variant of Connor, the original anglicized form the the name.
Conor is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Conor - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 223 in 1993. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Conor really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Conor was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
512 babies were named Conor in 2022 - that's 1 in 315,285 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Conor ranked 538 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 five letters, the name Conor is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Conor 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 Conor, you can simply say:
Cat
Orange
Nut
Orange
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Conor
Conor
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
O
N
O
R
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.
C
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R
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. Conor sounds like this:
