Conan is the anglicized version of the Gaelic male name Conán, which means "little wolf" or "little hound", derived from cú (grammatically changed to "con"), meaning hound or wolf, and the diminutive suffix án.

Bearers of the name include:

Real people

* Conan I (Le Torte), 927-992, duke of Brittany and of Rennes.
* Conan II (Le Petit), ruled 1040-1066, duke of Brittany.
* Conan III (Le Gros) 1096-1148, duke of Brittany.
* Conan IV, + 1171, duke of Brittany.
* Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859 - 1930, British author of fantasy and detective novels
* Conan Nado, 1955 -, musician, guitarist
* Conan O'Brien, 1963 -, American comedian and talk show host
*Conan Kennedy, 1948-, Irish historian and novelist

Mythical people

* Conand, King of the piratical Fomoraig of the Irish myth.
* Conán Maol, warrior of the Fianna in the Irish myth. Rescued from Tir na Tairngire by Fionn mac Cumhail.
* Conán Mac Lia, Lord of Luachar; ally of the mythical war leader Fionn mac Cumhail.
* A war leader that makes an alliance with Cadwallader in the prophecies of Merlin (Historia Regum Britanniae vii, 3). Together they slaughter the foreigners until the rivers run with blood. One of Conan's descendants will be a "huge boar" that fights in Gaul and is feared by the Africans and the Arabs. May be identical with Conan Meriadoc.

Semi-historical people

* Conan Meriadoc (middle Welsh Kynan Meriadoc, modern Breton Konan Meriadek), * ca. AD 305, + ca. AD 395, legendary first Duke of Brittany.
* Aurelius Conanus, nephew and successor to Constantine as king of the Britons for three years at the end of the 6th century AD according to Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Fictional characters

* Conan the Barbarian is a literary character created by Robert E. Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales in the 1930s, several comic books, the films Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Conan the Destroyer (1984), and in the Conan the Adventurer television series.
*Jimmy Kudo (Shin'ichi Kudo) also known as Conan Edogawa, a character from Case Closed (Detective Conan in Japan). A detective stuck in the body of a child, Kudo used the alias Conan, honoring Conan Doyle, in order to protect his real identity.
* Conan: The Boy in Future is a 26 episodes anime series by Hayao Miyazaki first aired in April 1978.

Placenames

*Conan, short for Kaerconan, town fortified by Aurelianus, king of the Britons after his victory over the Saxon forces of Hengist (Historia Regum Britanniae viii, 7). The captive Saxon leader Hengist is hacked to pieces by Eldol outside the town walls. Now called Cunungeburc according to Geoffrey of Monmouth; may be present day Conisborough.
* Conan is a commune of the Loir-et-Cher département in France.