Given name & surname
Konan
“hounds, warriors”
Konan is a masculine given name from Irish. It is used in Breton.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Konan goes back to a word meaning “hounds, warriors.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Konan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 145
- 145 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 24
- #4,327 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 24 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,327 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 167 as a first name in 2020; 348 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Konan’s family of names
In Breton usage, Konan has a conventional equivalent in the French form Conan. In Belarusian usage, Konan is a transliteration of Конан. In Japanese usage, Konan is a Roman-alphabet rendering of コナン.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Konan has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Irish roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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