Canon
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #2,207 for boys in 2025, 64 births
Given to boys 98.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 127 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,751since 1971
Canon over time
Rank among boys' names. Canon has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #2,207 | 64 |
| 2024 | — | #1,921 | 82 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,851 | 86 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,574 | 112 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,678 | 98 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,489 | 114 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,380 | 129 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,498 | 115 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #1,488 | 113 |
| 2016 | — | #1,739 | 89 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,767 | 86 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,348 | 127 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,563 | 100 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,419 | 117 | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #1,385 | 120 |
| 2010 | — | #1,503 | 108 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,546 | 106 | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #1,494 | 109 |
| 2007 | — | #1,576 | 99 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,467 | 104 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,584 | 87 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,629 | 79 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,591 | 79 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,851 | 61 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,618 | 36 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,015 | 50 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,347 | 38 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,782 | 29 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,126 | 41 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,911 | 25 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,020 | 23 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Canon! It came in at #3,658, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1977, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Canon is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#810 · 1 in 4,570
- Georgia#858 · 1 in 5,799
- Florida#1,104 · 1 in 9,584
- Texas#1,367 · 1 in 14,573
Best ever in a state: #413 in Nevada, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #810 | 5 | 1 in 4,570 |
| Georgia | #858 | 9 | 1 in 5,799 |
| Florida | #1,104 | 10 | 1 in 9,584 |
| Texas | #1,367 | 12 | 1 in 14,573 |
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See more about Canon
- 286 spots since 2024 (#1,921 → #2,207)
- 718 spots since 2020 (#1,489 → #2,207)
- 440 spots since 2015 (#1,767 → #2,207)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2014 at #1,348 (127 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,909 boys born in 2019 were named Canon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,689 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,348 in 2014, was only 1 in 15,125 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.1% of all boys named Canon (1,104) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 14 | #3,658 (1971) | #4,359 |
| 1980s | 61 | #4,333 (1985) | #5,496 |
| 1990s | 206 | #2,126 (1997) | #4,046 |
| 2000s | 810 | #1,467 (2006) | #1,737 |
| 2010s | 1,104 | #1,348 (2014) | #1,509 |
| 2020s | 556 | #1,489 (2020) | #1,787 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Canon in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 340,215 of them was named Canon, which outranked 13.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,470 names at #15,682; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 15,793 of them was named Canon, which outranked 89.4% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,489Olin116
- #1,489Osman116
- #1,489Zephyr116
- #1,498Canon115
- #1,498Armon115
- #1,498Don115
- #1,498Dov115
- #1,506Aedan114
- #1,506Branden114
- #1,506Cecil114
Tied with 7 names at #1,498; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.