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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| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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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.
Where Kannon is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#281 · 1 in 985
- West Virginia#330 · 1 in 1,232
- Louisiana#426 · 1 in 1,739
- South Carolina#501 · 1 in 2,355
- Arkansas#555 · 1 in 2,517
Best ever in a state: #153 in Delaware, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #281 | 11 | 1 in 985 |
| West Virginia | #330 | 5 | 1 in 1,232 |
| Louisiana | #426 | 11 | 1 in 1,739 |
| South Carolina | #501 | 9 | 1 in 2,355 |
| Arkansas | #555 | 5 | 1 in 2,517 |
| Kentucky | #569 | 7 | 1 in 2,934 |
| North Carolina | #591 | 16 | 1 in 3,217 |
| Florida | #681 | 23 | 1 in 4,154 |
| Alabama | #685 | 6 | 1 in 3,586 |
| Georgia | #710 | 13 | 1 in 3,863 |
| Indiana | #711 | 8 | 1 in 3,958 |
| Washington | #737 | 8 | 1 in 4,100 |
| Pennsylvania | #742 | 11 | 1 in 4,751 |
| Tennessee | #777 | 8 | 1 in 4,596 |
| Missouri | #789 | 6 | 1 in 4,635 |
| Texas | #789 | 34 | 1 in 5,149 |
| Colorado | #849 | 5 | 1 in 5,370 |
| Michigan | #905 | 7 | 1 in 5,742 |
| Ohio | #1,015 | 7 | 1 in 7,505 |
| Illinois | #1,133 | 6 | 1 in 8,259 |
| California | #1,299 | 14 | 1 in 12,534 |
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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 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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 146,115 of them was named Kannon, which outranked 48.8% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #8,362Zissel12
- #8,362Zoella12
- #8,362Zyomi12
- #8,860Kannon11
- #8,860Aadiya11
- #8,860Aadvika11
- #8,860Aara11
- #9,457Aanaya10
- #9,457Aarza10
- #9,457Aashi10
Tied with 596 names at #8,860; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 6,495 of them was named Kannon, which outranked 93.5% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).