Conor: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

In census returns, Conor often stands in for Connor. Name scholars give the meaning as “Descendant of Conchobhar”. Without the “n” of Connor, Conor is a simpler written form of the same name. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Connors and Conners.

French birth records list 162 children named Conor between 1891 and 2000. There were 7 such births in the 1890s and 17 in the 1990s. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Conry.

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