Con
Where Con comes from
Con hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
Along the way
- 1892Debut at its peak, #956#956 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
- 1893The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
- 1966Con O'Neill bornEnglish actor and singer
- 1971Con Boutsianis bornAustralian soccer player
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Con O'Neill · English actor and singer, born 1966
- Con Boutsianis · Australian soccer player, born 1971
- Con Martin · Irish footballer, 1923–2013
- Con Blatsis · Australian soccer player, born 1977
- Con Kolivas · Australian physician and programmer, born 2000
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.