Cannon
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #721 for boys in 2025, 374 births
Given to boys 98.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 581 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,978since 1904
Cannon over time
Rank among boys' names. Cannon 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 | — | #721 | 374 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #763 | 332 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #640 | 431 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #600 | 469 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #506 | 581 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #542 | 522 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #508 | 565 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #539 | 521 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #550 | 505 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | #543 | 531 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #585 | 473 |
| 2014 | — | #543 | 509 | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #542 | 491 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #530 | 492 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #519 | 493 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #600 | 414 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #623 | 400 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #638 | 385 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #728 | 315 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #788 | 263 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #772 | 257 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #835 | 213 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #884 | 191 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #1,115 | 130 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #1,114 | 127 |
| 2000 | — | #1,162 | 119 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,283 | 95 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,406 | 81 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,468 | 73 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,368 | 78 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #1,666 | 54 |
| 1994 | — | #1,564 | 59 | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #3,141 | 21 |
| 1992 | — | #2,834 | 24 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,828 | 23 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,432 | 28 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,446 | 16 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,203 | 16 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,521 | 13 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,440 | 13 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,401 | 13 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,956 | 15 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,910 | 14 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,659 | 9 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,982 | 21 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,966 | 21 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,558 | 14 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,549 | 12 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
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| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
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| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
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| 1904 | — | #1,064 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cannon! It came in at #1,064, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1905–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Cannon is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#520 · 1 in 4,036
- Texas#834 · 1 in 10,471
- California#1,407 · 1 in 27,287
Best ever in a state: #171 in Mississippi, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #520 | 5 | 1 in 4,036 |
| Texas | #834 | 15 | 1 in 10,471 |
| California | #1,407 | 9 | 1 in 27,287 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cannon
- 42 spots since 2024 (#763 → #721)
- 179 spots since 2020 (#542 → #721)
- 136 spots since 2015 (#585 → #721)
- Biggest jump: 231 spots in 2003 (#1,115 → #884)
- Biggest drop: 123 spots in 2024 (#640 → #763)
- Debuted 1904
- Peaked 2021 at #506 (581 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 2003–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,011 boys born in 2021 were named Cannon (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,567 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 45.5% of all boys named Cannon (4,994) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | #1,064 (1904) | #1,064 |
| 1910s | 17 | #3,728 (1918) | #3,787 |
| 1920s | 25 | #3,139 (1926) | #3,786 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,525 (1946) | #3,525 |
| 1950s | 13 | #3,021 (1950) | #3,223 |
| 1960s | 22 | #2,549 (1969) | #3,573 |
| 1970s | 124 | #1,966 (1972) | #3,211 |
| 1980s | 127 | #2,956 (1984) | #3,571 |
| 1990s | 536 | #1,283 (1999) | #1,999 |
| 2000s | 2,400 | #623 (2009) | #866 |
| 2010s | 4,994 | #508 (2019) | #546 |
| 2020s | 2,709 | #506 (2021) | #629 |
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.
Cannon in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 25,824 of them was named Cannon, which outranked 86.4% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,456Torin74
- #1,456Yitzchok74
- #1,456Yousef74
- #1,468Cannon73
- #1,468Baylee73
- #1,468Campbell73
- #1,468Jacorey73
- #1,480Aleksander72
- #1,480Briar72
- #1,480Christofer72
Tied with 11 names at #1,468; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.