Conn as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Conn

What is the meaning of the name Conn ?

The baby name Conn is a boy name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced KAHN.

Conn is Irish in Origin.

Conn is an Irish masculine name, with the earliest attested form appearing in Old Irish as Conn, notably in the royal byname Conn Cétchathach. Its etymology is not settled. A common explanation links it with Old Irish cond, sense, mind, intellect, while another connects it to cenn, head or chief, from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom, the same Celtic root behind Welsh, Cornish, and Breton penn.

In medieval Irish tradition Conn Cétchathach, Conn of the Hundred Battles, was ancestor of the Connachta and the dynastic terms Dál Cuinn and Leth Cuinn. The name later appears among Gaelic families, though in modern English it is also a surname and a short form of Conor or Connor and other Con- names. Bearers include Conn O’Neill, first Earl of Tyrone, and the Canadian hockey executive Conn Smythe. Recent American records show very rare male use, with a small mid-twentieth-century peak.