Conan
#1,677 for boys in 2025, 98 births
- Peak · boys
- 1972 · 56 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,438since 1923
Conan over time
Rank among boys' names. Conan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,677 | 98 |
| 2024 | #2,012 | 76 |
| 2023 | #1,875 | 84 |
| 2022 | #2,468 | 56 |
| 2021 | #1,982 | 75 |
| 2020 | #2,190 | 63 |
| 2019 | #2,556 | 51 |
| 2018 | #2,417 | 54 |
| 2017 | #3,006 | 39 |
| 2016 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2015 | #2,276 | 58 |
| 2014 | #2,661 | 45 |
| 2013 | #2,402 | 52 |
| 2012 | #2,358 | 54 |
| 2011 | #3,306 | 33 |
| 2010 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2008 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 19 |
| 2006 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #3,319 | 30 |
| 2004 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #2,864 | 32 |
| 2000 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #3,591 | 21 |
| 1998 | #2,926 | 27 |
| 1997 | #2,613 | 30 |
| 1996 | #2,483 | 31 |
| 1995 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1993 | #3,246 | 20 |
| 1992 | #3,920 | 15 |
| 1991 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | #2,860 | 19 |
| 1987 | #1,938 | 32 |
| 1986 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #2,942 | 16 |
| 1984 | #2,364 | 21 |
| 1983 | #1,562 | 38 |
| 1982 | #1,563 | 39 |
| 1981 | #1,154 | 63 |
| 1980 | #1,258 | 54 |
| 1979 | #1,319 | 49 |
| 1978 | #1,272 | 50 |
| 1977 | #1,187 | 55 |
| 1976 | #1,154 | 55 |
| 1975 | #1,208 | 49 |
| 1974 | #1,182 | 49 |
| 1973 | #1,294 | 41 |
| 1972 | #1,083 | 56 |
| 1971 | #1,494 | 33 |
| 1970 | #1,462 | 33 |
| 1969 | #1,605 | 26 |
| 1968 | #1,894 | 18 |
| 1967 | #2,352 | 12 |
| 1966 | #2,465 | 11 |
| 1965 | #2,982 | 8 |
| 1964 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1963 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1962 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #2,070 | 16 |
| 1960 | #2,535 | 11 |
| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #3,275 | 7 |
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| 1956 | #2,798 | 9 |
| 1955 | #2,302 | 12 |
| 1954 | #3,176 | 7 |
| 1953 | #2,709 | 9 |
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| 1951 | #2,367 | 11 |
| 1950 | #3,329 | 6 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #3,592 | 6 |
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| 1923 | #3,467 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Conan! It came in at #3,467, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1929, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Conan is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#954 · 1 in 17,733
- California#1,202 · 1 in 30,027
Best ever in a state: #429 in Washington, 1978.
Show every state
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| Texas | #954 | 6 | 1 in 17,733 |
| California | #1,202 | 5 | 1 in 30,027 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Conan
- 335 spots since 2024 (#2,012 → #1,677)
- 513 spots since 2020 (#2,190 → #1,677)
- 599 spots since 2015 (#2,276 → #1,677)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 1972 at #1,083 (56 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,429 boys born in 2025 were named Conan (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,083 in 1972, was only 1 in 28,957 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.0% of all boys named Conan (488) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 7 | #3,467 (1923) | #3,467 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,592 (1930) | #3,617 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 66 | #2,302 (1955) | #2,993 |
| 1960s | 131 | #1,605 (1969) | #2,429 |
| 1970s | 470 | #1,083 (1972) | #1,266 |
| 1980s | 315 | #1,154 (1981) | #2,207 |
| 1990s | 230 | #2,483 (1996) | #3,165 |
| 2000s | 263 | #2,864 (2001) | #3,660 |
| 2010s | 488 | #2,086 (2016) | #2,625 |
| 2020s | 452 | #1,677 (2025) | #2,034 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Conan in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
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1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 28,957 of them was named Conan, which outranked 81.2% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,069Rueben57
- #1,069Stephanie57
- #1,069Woody57
- #1,083Conan56
- #1,083Aldo56
- #1,083Augustus56
- #1,083Baron56
- #1,098Darcy55
- #1,098Delmar55
- #1,098Derrek55
Tied with 14 names at #1,083; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.