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Hound and prince or chief, in the reviewed Celtic root account.
The exact Irish and Old Irish given-name entries reconstruct Proto-Celtic Kunowalos from roots glossed dog/hound and prince/chief, citing Matasovic’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (2009), page 402. This is a historical root interpretation, not a personality claim. The original dictionary has not been directly inspected in this review.
Irish, inherited through Old Irish from a Proto-Celtic name.
Exact Irish and Old Irish entries document masculine given-name use. Existing licensed high/mighty and strong-in-battle glosses remain pending rather than being silently merged into this account.
con-uhl (one recorded US English guide)
One bearer’s approximate English first-name reading in the university’s official guide. The lower-case aid is retained as printed; it does not explicitly mark stress. Other families or languages may use another reading.
Recorded English reading, as published. Accents and preferred pronunciations can differ.
Counts apply only to the exact spelling, place, year and recorded usage shown. Places are separate; these figures are never added into a worldwide total. Missing or suppressed records never mean zero.
| Place | Year | Recorded usage | Published births | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2018 | Boys | 8 | 1983 | 2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| England & Wales | 2025 | Boys | 16 | 1613 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Northern Ireland | 2025 | Boys | 16 | 143 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Scotland | 2025 | Boys | 12 | 298 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Ireland | 2025 | Boys | 59 | 97 | Names below three occurrences are unpublished. Accent recording changed in 2018; comparisons across that boundary may not describe the same spelling coverage. Counts refer to registrations in the year. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| United States | 2025 | Boys | 19 | 5045 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
Canada, Ireland and France coverage includes confidently matched existing profiles only; unmatched spellings are awaiting review. French counts are rounded to five.
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Exact Irish entry explicitly documents a masculine given name. No English pronunciation is inferred. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names; CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The exact Irish and Old Irish given-name entries reconstruct Proto-Celtic Kunowalos from roots glossed dog/hound and prince/chief, citing Matasovic’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (2009), page 402. This is a historical root interpretation, not a personality claim. The original dictionary has not been directly inspected in this review. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names; CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0
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Kathleen M. O’Brien’s index identifies Conall as a masculine given name in annal records and separates nominative Conall from genitive Conaill. Event dates are not proof that the surviving spelling was used at that date. Credit: Kathleen M. O’Brien, Index of Names in Irish Annals. Source and rights notice: https://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Conall.shtml. License: source rights retained. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names wrote a brief factual summary of the index’s historical and spelling cautions; no table or source passages reproduced.
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Exact Irish and Old Irish entries document masculine given-name use. Existing licensed high/mighty and strong-in-battle glosses remain pending rather than being silently merged into this account. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names; CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0
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One bearer’s approximate English first-name reading in the university’s official guide. The lower-case aid is retained as printed; it does not explicitly mark stress. Other families or languages may use another reading. Credit: Oklahoma State University Athletics, 2015 men’s track and field media guide, pronunciation table, PDF page 4 / printed page 2. Source: https://okstate.com/documents/download/2015/6/30/2015_MTRK_MEDIA_GUIDE.pdf#page=4. License: original brief factual summary; source rights retained. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names retained only the short written first-name reading aid, scope and syllable count. No IPA or stress invented; no article prose, quotation, roster, biography, image or audio republished; no open license claimed.
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The first-name aid con-uhl represents 2 syllables in this reading. The count is not a rule for every bearer. Credit: Oklahoma State University Athletics, 2015 men’s track and field media guide, pronunciation table, PDF page 4 / printed page 2. Source: https://okstate.com/documents/download/2015/6/30/2015_MTRK_MEDIA_GUIDE.pdf#page=4. License: original brief factual summary; source rights retained. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names retained only the short written first-name reading aid, scope and syllable count. No IPA or stress invented; no article prose, quotation, roster, biography, image or audio republished; no open license claimed.
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Woulfe lists Connell as a rendering of the Irish personal name Conall. This is a documented historical form, not a claim that every modern Connell has that origin or pronunciation; popularity counts remain separate. Credit: Patrick Woulfe, Irish Names and Surnames (1923), online transcription by Library Ireland. Source: https://www.libraryireland.com/names/men/conall-conall.php. License: original factual summary; online source rights retained (https://www.libraryireland.com/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarizes the name-form relationship; no source passages or images reproduced.
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Attribution: Source: NISRA : Website: www.nisra.gov.uk
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: (C) Crown copyright. Data supplied by National Records of Scotland.
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence
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Attribution: U.S. Social Security Administration
Credit: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.
License: Statistics Canada Open Licence
Adaptation: Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators, Table 17-10-0147-01, reference years 1991–2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Credit: Central Statistics Office, Ireland, VSA50 and VSA60, updated 27 February 2026.
License: CC BY 4.0
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: joined the published count and rank indicators and matched unambiguous existing spellings. Source values retained.
