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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 1971
No state had 5 or more boys named Canon in 1971, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 221,056 of them was named Canon, which outranked 35.3% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).