Kannon
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #903 for boys in 2025, 263 births
Given to boys 97.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 526 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,040since 1972
Kannon over time
Rank among boys' names. Kannon has never cracked the top 500 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 | #8,860 | 11 | #903 | 263 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #986 | 228 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #817 | 300 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #664 | 411 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #593 | 469 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #537 | 526 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #585 | 475 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #594 | 460 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #670 | 377 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #791 | 299 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #853 | 263 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #915 | 234 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #981 | 204 |
| 2012 | — | #1,081 | 173 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,143 | 158 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,232 | 143 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #1,191 | 151 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #1,192 | 148 |
| 2007 | — | #1,445 | 111 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #1,583 | 92 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #1,790 | 73 |
| 2004 | — | #1,604 | 81 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,233 | 117 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,682 | 70 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,988 | 30 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,075 | 28 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,376 | 23 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,849 | 18 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,613 | 30 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,830 | 17 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,236 | 10 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kannon! It came in at #4,441, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kannon
- 83 spots since 2024 (#986 → #903)
- 366 spots since 2020 (#537 → #903)
- 50 spots since 2015 (#853 → #903)
- Biggest jump: 121 spots in 2017 (#791 → #670)
- Biggest drop: 169 spots in 2024 (#817 → #986)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2020 at #537 (526 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2013–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,282 boys born in 2020 were named Kannon (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,495 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 46.1% of all boys named Kannon (2,786) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #4,441 (1972) | #5,249 |
| 1980s | 6 | #6,089 (1987) | #6,089 |
| 1990s | 139 | #2,613 (1997) | #5,034 |
| 2000s | 901 | #1,191 (2009) | #1,778 |
| 2010s | 2,786 | #585 (2019) | #885 |
| 2020s | 2,197 | #537 (2020) | #750 |
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.
Kannon 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 154,643 of them was named Kannon, which outranked 49.6% 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).
- #8,617Zionah12
- #8,617Ziyan12
- #8,617Ziyonna12
- #9,151Kannon11
- #9,151Aaima11
- #9,151Aalyah11
- #9,151Abbigayle11
- #9,806Aaditri10
- #9,806Aaleiya10
- #9,806Aamani10
Tied with 654 names at #9,151; 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 3,948 of them was named Kannon, which outranked 95.8% 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).