Meaning not yet researched.
Conway: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 152 in 2025. Its best rank was #895 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #895 in 1881; #1,287 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Conway in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,287 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #895.
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Conway: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 152 boys in 2025. Peak: #895 in 1881 · most boys in one year: 152 (2025).
In 2025, 152 US boys were named Conway, making it the 1,287th most common boys’ name of the year, up 244 places from #1,531 in 2024. That is 37 more than the 115 boys named Conway in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #895, reached in 1881. The most boys given the name in a single year was 152, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,363 in 2015 and #1,709 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Conway in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 2,932 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 599 babies named Conway.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 834 US boys were named Conway; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 152. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,237 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Conway ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #475 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Konway are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Konway (12).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Conway in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 9 | #475 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #661 | — |
| Tennessee | 8 | #798 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #872 | — |
| Texas | 22 | #1,042 | #1,559 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,050 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,239 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,274 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,505 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,817 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 152 | #1,287 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,791 | 115 | #1,531 |
| 2023 | — | — | 101 | #1,684 |
| 2022 | — | — | 81 | #1,920 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,872 | 68 | #2,114 |
| 2020 | — | — | 71 | #2,003 |
| 2019 | — | — | 62 | #2,236 |
| 2018 | — | — | 68 | #2,085 |
| 2017 | — | — | 52 | #2,458 |
| 2016 | — | — | 64 | #2,145 |
| 2015 | — | — | 55 | #2,363 |
| 2014 | — | — | 34 | #3,248 |
| 2013 | — | — | 39 | #2,899 |
| 2012 | — | — | 29 | #3,632 |
| 2011 | — | — | 26 | #3,908 |
| 2010 | — | — | 24 | #4,134 |
| 2009 | — | — | 23 | #4,305 |
| 2008 | — | — | 18 | #5,103 |
| 2007 | — | — | 16 | #5,478 |
| 2006 | — | — | 10 | #7,531 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,438 |
| 2004 | — | — | 11 | #6,605 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #11,206 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,792 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,662 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,568 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,811 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #4,929 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,279 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,248 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,127 |
| 1994 | — | — | 21 | #3,240 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,491 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,611 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,644 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,213 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #4,882 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,874 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,023 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,842 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,744 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,096 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,522 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #3,899 |
| 1980 | — | — | 15 | #2,985 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,797 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,818 |
| 1977 | — | — | 19 | #2,381 |
| 1976 | — | — | 14 | #2,848 |
| 1975 | — | — | 26 | #1,842 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #2,982 |
| 1973 | — | — | 16 | #2,420 |
| 1972 | — | — | 20 | #2,028 |
| 1971 | — | — | 24 | #1,832 |
| 1970 | — | — | 19 | #2,074 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,331 |
| 1968 | — | — | 15 | #2,125 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,041 |
| 1966 | — | — | 15 | #2,060 |
| 1965 | — | — | 19 | #1,816 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,744 |
| 1963 | — | — | 17 | #1,974 |
| 1962 | — | — | 15 | #2,129 |
| 1961 | — | — | 23 | #1,697 |
| 1960 | — | — | 23 | #1,697 |
| 1959 | — | — | 17 | #1,987 |
| 1958 | — | — | 18 | #1,907 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,110 |
| 1956 | — | — | 21 | #1,727 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,066 |
| 1954 | — | — | 18 | #1,840 |
| 1953 | — | — | 24 | #1,556 |
| 1952 | — | — | 15 | #2,021 |
| 1951 | — | — | 19 | #1,736 |
| 1950 | — | — | 19 | #1,709 |
| 1949 | — | — | 18 | #1,769 |
| 1948 | — | — | 19 | #1,718 |
| 1947 | — | — | 18 | #1,797 |
| 1946 | — | — | 26 | #1,388 |
| 1945 | — | — | 27 | #1,274 |
| 1944 | — | — | 13 | #2,008 |
| 1943 | — | — | 25 | #1,407 |
| 1942 | — | — | 14 | #1,966 |
| 1941 | — | — | 16 | #1,774 |
| 1940 | — | — | 18 | #1,641 |
| 1939 | — | — | 21 | #1,460 |
| 1938 | — | — | 21 | #1,487 |
| 1937 | — | — | 17 | #1,708 |
| 1936 | — | — | 14 | #1,892 |
| 1935 | — | — | 27 | #1,300 |
| 1934 | — | — | 19 | #1,616 |
| 1933 | — | — | 26 | #1,311 |
| 1932 | — | — | 19 | #1,660 |
| 1931 | — | — | 36 | #1,132 |
| 1930 | — | — | 21 | #1,610 |
| 1929 | — | — | 35 | #1,179 |
| 1928 | — | — | 29 | #1,357 |
| 1927 | — | — | 41 | #1,116 |
| 1926 | — | — | 36 | #1,196 |
| 1925 | — | — | 35 | #1,204 |
| 1924 | — | — | 56 | #938 |
| 1923 | — | — | 32 | #1,281 |
| 1922 | — | — | 37 | #1,185 |
| 1921 | — | — | 35 | #1,234 |
| 1920 | — | — | 30 | #1,331 |
| 1919 | — | — | 27 | #1,388 |
| 1918 | — | — | 30 | #1,296 |
| 1917 | — | — | 25 | #1,404 |
| 1916 | — | — | 27 | #1,309 |
| 1915 | — | — | 23 | #1,420 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,618 |
| 1913 | — | — | 14 | #1,459 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,770 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,578 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,308 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,227 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,246 |
| 1902 | — | — | 7 | #950 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,085 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #913 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #895 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).