Connor seems more distinguished and ordinary. I've come across it before, used for both people and dogs, and I know it's got epic history.
I don't hate
Colton (it seems like
Corbin,
Colby,
Dalton, etc, and I don't care), but it just seems like a random surname to me. My word associations (with colt, when I think about it) are untrained horses, guns, and cults; to be fair, my first word association with
Connor is con (like scheme or drawback), but that also registers more as a name element to me, as in
Conrad,
Constantine,
Khan, etc...and if I thought of it as col-ton instead, as in "coal town", that's dreary.
This message was edited 4/1/2022, 5:27 PM