Kanon
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #3,757 for boys in 2025, 29 births
Given to boys 90.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 127 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,524since 1972
Kanon over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #13,208 | 6 | #3,757 | 29 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #2,958 | 42 |
| 2023 | — | #2,895 | 43 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,830 | 45 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,321 | 59 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,347 | 57 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,755 | 89 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #1,671 | 95 |
| 2017 | — | #1,661 | 95 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,413 | 124 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,369 | 127 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #1,794 | 83 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #2,021 | 67 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | #2,358 | 54 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #2,547 | 48 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 | #2,787 | 43 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #2,702 | 45 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #3,005 | 39 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #2,721 | 44 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #3,384 | 31 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | #3,091 | 33 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #3,534 | 26 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #2,993 | 32 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | — | #4,413 | 15 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,100 | 9 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,396 | 14 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,501 | 10 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kanon! It came in at #4,441, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1986, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kanon
- 799 spots since 2024 (#2,958 → #3,757)
- 1,410 spots since 2020 (#2,347 → #3,757)
- 2,388 spots since 2015 (#1,369 → #3,757)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2015 at #1,369 (127 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,092 boys born in 2015 were named Kanon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 58,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 54.1% of all boys named Kanon (825) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #4,441 (1972) | #4,441 |
| 1980s | 7 | #5,459 (1987) | #5,459 |
| 1990s | 87 | #4,396 (1996) | #6,078 |
| 2000s | 324 | #2,702 (2009) | #3,191 |
| 2010s | 825 | #1,369 (2015) | #1,938 |
| 2020s | 275 | #2,321 (2021) | #2,851 |
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.
Kanon in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 297,516 of them was named Kanon, which outranked 24.3% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,006Zyliah7
- #13,006Zymira7
- #13,006Zyniyah7
- #14,482Kanon6
- #14,482Aafia6
- #14,482Aailyah6
- #14,482Aala6
- #16,419Aabriella5
- #16,419Aada5
- #16,419Aailiyah5
Tied with 1,936 names at #14,482; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 15,092 of them was named Kanon, which outranked 90.3% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,359Oren128
- #1,359Tevin128
- #1,359Zephyr128
- #1,369Kanon127
- #1,369Axle127
- #1,369Dezmond127
- #1,369Emil127
- #1,374Gionni126
- #1,374Hasan126
- #1,374Kiyan126
Tied with 4 names at #1,369; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.