Fun Facts About the Name Conroy
- 312 babies named Conroy: U.S. records list 312 babies given the name Conroy from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Conroy Mean?
Conroy is an English form of the Irish surnames Ó Conraoi and Mac Conraoi (also written Mac Con Raoi), both built on the personal name Conraoi. Ó means "descendant of" and Mac means "son of," so the surnames first identified a person as a descendant or son of a man who bore that personal name. The sense of Conraoi itself is not securely established. Its first element is usually connected with cú, "hound" (genitive con), a common element in early Irish personal names, but the second element has no agreed reading, so the full meaning of the name remains uncertain. Traditional name books sometimes gloss Conroy as "wise man"; that is a customary interpretation rather than a documented literal translation, and it should not be treated as the name's demonstrable etymology.
Conroy Name History & Origins
Conroy comes out of the Irish system of hereditary surnames that took shape between roughly the tenth and twelfth centuries. In that system a family name was formed from an ancestor's personal name with Ó ("descendant") or Mac ("son"), giving Ó Conraoi and Mac Conraoi. Because more than one unrelated family used the same personal name, the modern surname does not point back to a single origin, and the two Gaelic forms were anglicized in the same way.
Under English administration in Ireland, particularly from the seventeenth century onward, the prefixes Ó and Mac were often dropped or written in English spelling, and the remaining syllables were reshaped phonetically into forms such as Conroy, Conry, and Conree. These spellings overlap with the separate surname Ó Conaire, which is also anglicized as Conry and Connery, and the two names are frequently confused in English records. Conroy is chiefly a surname; its use as a first name, mainly in the United States, follows the broader practice of turning Irish surnames into given names. The surname is found in Ireland and also in Scotland, where Gaelic naming produced the same anglicized form.
How Popular is the Name Conroy?
Conroy has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2022. Its best rank was #3,066 in 1957.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #12,415 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2024 | #12,654 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2023 | #8,379 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2022 | #6,552 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2021 | #8,308 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #7,265 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2018 | #9,875 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #9,888 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2015 | #12,438 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #10,991 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #9,850 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2011 | #8,198 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #12,847 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2008 | #7,797 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2006 | #10,921 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2005 | #9,299 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2004 | #9,123 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2001 | #6,092 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1998 | #8,674 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #9,099 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #9,047 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1993 | #8,959 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1992 | #8,641 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1991 | #6,642 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1990 | #6,539 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1988 | #6,572 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #6,246 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #6,924 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1985 | #5,254 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1984 | #3,978 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1983 | #5,616 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1982 | #6,550 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1978 | #4,637 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1966 | #3,596 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1965 | #4,007 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1963 | #4,152 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1957 | #3,066 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1952 | #3,150 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1948 | #3,378 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1947 | #3,436 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1944 | #3,518 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1943 | #3,638 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1941 | #3,598 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1934 | #3,776 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1923 | #3,909 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1922 | #3,943 | 6 | 0.0006% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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