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
Showing
- 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
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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First appearance
1972
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.
Where Kanon is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #2,471 | 5 | 1 in 35,095 |
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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 Kanon
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,410 spots since 2020 (#2,347 → #3,757)
Rise & fade · boys
43 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2015 at #1,369 (127 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 15,092
- 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%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 54.1% of all boys named Kanon (825) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 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.
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