Connor - Origin and Meaning of the name

[ 2 syll. con-nor, co-nn-or ] The boy name Connor is pronounced KAANer ^KEY. Connor has its origins in the Celtic language. It is used largely in the English and Irish languages. The meaning of Connor is 'dog lover; high desire'. Derived from cú meaning 'dog, hound, wolf' ; chobhar meaning 'help, support'. Original forms of Connor include the Old Irish Conchobar and the Old Irish Conchobhar. The name probably means 'dog lover', but it is often interpreted as 'high desire' from its association with Conn. It was originally bestowed upon hunters. In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, Conchobar mac Nessa was a semi-legendary king of Ulster.

A variant form of the name is the English Konnor. Other forms of Connor include the short forms Con (English and Irish) and Conn (English and Irish), and the variant spellings Conner (English) and Conor (English and Irish).

Connor is popular as a baby boy name, and it is also considered rather trendy. The name has been increasing in popularity since the 1980s; prior to that, it was of only infrequent use. At the modest height of its usage in 2004, 0.476% of baby boys were given the name Connor. It was #38 in rank then. In 2007, it ranked at #55 with a usage of 0.378%, and it was the most popular within all boy names in its family. Connor was thrice as popular as the 2nd most popular name, the English Conner, in 2007.

Baby names that sound like Connor include the English Conner, the English and Irish Conor, the English Konnor, the Hungarian Kázmér, the English and German Casimir, the Basque, German, and Scandinavian Kasimir, the Russian and Slavic Kazimir, the Czech, Hungarian, and Slavic Kazimír, and the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Casimiro.

^KEY: Pronunciation for Connor: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)"

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