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Connery

Boy · KAH-ner-ee · Irish

Connery is a boys' name of Irish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Connery mean?

Irish: Irish surname, anglicised from O Conaire

Transferred use of the Irish surname Connery (O Conaire), best known from the Scottish actor Sean Connery.

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KAH-ner-ee

Is Connery a girl's or a boy's name?

Connery is a boys' name.

How popular is Connery in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 1981.

Half of all the boys named Connery in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2004, the years shaded on the chart below.

1981Busiest: 15 in 20022013
Connery in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20135#12,129
20126#10,763
20110–
20100–
20096#10,989
20080–
20076#10,915
20069#7,992
20050–
20046#9,941
20036#9,574
200215#4,913
20019#6,928
200010#6,309
19998#7,132
199813#4,868
19977#7,275
19967#7,129
19950–
19947#6,962
19930–
19926#7,414
19910–
19908#5,816
19896#6,934
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19815#6,260

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