Kit Connor is the British actor behind Netflix's Heartstopper, and search interest jumped after Deadline reported Marvel's Cyclops casting on August 6 2026. Google Search interest for the keyword kit connor reached 55 for the week of August 8 2026, up from 8 on August 1 and 4 on July 11. Trends MCP records a series-derived +1,275.0% 30-day rise and the same +1,275.0% over 90 days from 4 on May 9. get_growth returns +587.5% over 7 days (8 → 55) and +1,275.0% over 30 days (4 → 55), matching the weekly series endpoint. On boards as of August 11 2026 08:01 UTC, kit connor ranked 17 on Google Trends. Data pulled August 11 2026 from source google search.
Kit Connor search interest right now
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Latest value (week of August 8 2026) | 55 |
| 30-day change | +1,275.0% (4 on July 11 2026 → 55) |
| 90-day change | +1,275.0% (4 on May 9 2026 → 55) |
| Peak value | 100 on April 30 2022 |
| Prior recent high | 14 on July 25 2026, then 8 on August 1 2026 |
| First seen in series | August 14 2021 |
| 7-day growth (get_growth) | +587.5% (8 → 55), recent date August 8 2026 |
| Google Trends rank (August 11 2026) | 17 |
Every row traces to the stored topics/data/kit-connor.json series or to same-day Trends MCP get_growth / get_top_trends pulls. Values sit on the normalized 0-100 Google Search scale.
About Kit Connor
Kit Connor came to wider attention as Nick Nelson in Netflix's Heartstopper and later returned for the Heartstopper Forever film. Earlier credits include a young Elton John in Rocketman and work on HBO's His Dark Materials. In 2025 and 2026 he expanded into adult roles with Alex Garland's Warfare for A24 and Garland's Elden Ring adaptation, which A24 set for a March 3 2028 theatrical release with production underway in 2026.
The August search move maps to casting news, not a new Heartstopper drop. Deadline reported on August 6 2026 that Marvel Studios selected Connor for Cyclops (Scott Summers) in the Jake Schreier X-Men film, after meetings with Schreier and Marvel president Kevin Feige. The same reporting wave already linked Samara Weaving to Emma Frost, which is why both names show up in adjacent Trends MCP growth pulls. Marvel and Connor's representatives did not comment publicly in that Deadline piece.
What the time series shows
The Google Search curve for kit connor stayed near zero into early 2022, then hit its series peak of 100 on April 30 2022 as Heartstopper broke out. Interest cooled through mid-2022, spiked again to 72 on November 5 2022, and later printed 77 on August 12 2023 and 44 on October 12 2024. Through most of 2025 and early 2026 the weekly reading sat in the 3-9 band.
The current climb started the week of July 18 2026 at 13, held 14 on July 25, dipped to 8 on August 1, then jumped to 55 on August 8 after the Deadline report. Derived labels from the stored series are growth_label exploding, speed_label exponential, seasonality_label low, and volatility_label high. Exploding follows the +1,275.0% 30-day change. Exponential follows a recent 30-day absolute move of 51 versus a prior 30-day absolute move of 1. Low seasonality reflects a single recent surge rather than a repeating calendar pattern. High volatility matches a week-over-week percent-change standard deviation of about 125 across the full series.
Related topics
- samara weaving: +300.0% over 30 days on Google Search (25 → 100), Trends MCP get_growth, recent date August 8 2026. Existing topic page: Samara Weaving.
- spider-man brand new day: +525.0% over 30 days (12 → 75) and -25.0% over 7 days (100 → 75). Topic page: Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
- house of the dragon: -12.0% over 30 days (25 → 22) on the same pull window; still active on Wikipedia boards after the Season 3 finale.
- heartstopper: 0.0% over 30 days at value 4, and -33.33% over 7 days (6 → 4), so the August Connor spike is not a Heartstopper catalog rebound.
- Source context for Google Search boards: Google Trends and Wikipedia Trending API.