Meaning not yet researched.
Cannon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 374 in 2025. Its best rank was #506 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #506 in 2021; #722 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cannon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#722 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #506.
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Cannon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 374 boys in 2025. Peak: #506 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 581 (2021).
In 2025, 374 US boys were named Cannon, making it the 722nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 41 places from #763 in 2024. That is 42 more than the 332 boys named Cannon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #506, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 581. For comparison, it was #585 in 2015 and #3,066 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cannon in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 6 babies. In all, 11,207 US babies have been given the name, 2.0% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,084 babies named Cannon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,831 US boys were named Cannon; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 581. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,567 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cannon ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #374 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kannon (6,181 babies since 1880), Canaan (6,167 babies since 1880), Canyon (4,086 babies since 1880) and Canon (2,792 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cainan, Cainen and Kannan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cainan (1,024), Cainen (521), Kannan (345), Cannan (276), Kannen (274), Cannen (199), Kainon (131), Cainon (87), Canan (81), Caynan (80), Kaynon (77), Kannyn (71), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cannon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 14 | #374 | #328 |
| Tennessee | 21 | #389 | #308 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #404 | #489 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #424 | #291 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #458 | #359 |
| Indiana | 14 | #487 | #734 |
| Alabama | 10 | #487 | #487 |
| Iowa | 6 | #507 | #584 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #516 | #290 |
| Texas | 64 | #519 | #428 |
| Missouri | 10 | #563 | #569 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #565 | #291 |
| Georgia | 18 | #569 | #414 |
| Maryland | 8 | #580 | #587 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #681 | #440 |
| Colorado | 7 | #695 | #703 |
| Washington | 9 | #696 | #544 |
| Florida | 22 | #705 | #748 |
| Utah | 5 | #719 | #380 |
| Arizona | 8 | #731 | #530 |
| Virginia | 9 | #744 | #806 |
| Ohio | 9 | #869 | #735 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,020 | #1,058 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,045 | #846 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,136 | #821 |
| California | 16 | #1,209 | #810 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 374 | #722 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,808 | 332 | #763 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,752 | 431 | #641 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,500 | 469 | #600 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,712 | 581 | #506 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,286 | 522 | #542 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,226 | 565 | #508 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,747 | 521 | #540 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,370 | 505 | #550 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,965 | 531 | #543 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,280 | 473 | #585 |
| 2014 | — | — | 509 | #543 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,193 | 491 | #542 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,455 | 492 | #531 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,275 | 493 | #519 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,574 | 414 | #600 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,815 | 400 | #623 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,116 | 385 | #638 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,202 | 315 | #728 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,742 | 263 | #788 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,274 | 257 | #772 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,822 | 213 | #835 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,217 | 191 | #884 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,441 | 130 | #1,115 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,289 | 127 | #1,114 |
| 2000 | — | — | 119 | #1,163 |
| 1999 | — | — | 95 | #1,284 |
| 1998 | — | — | 81 | #1,406 |
| 1997 | — | — | 73 | #1,470 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,090 | 78 | #1,370 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,765 | 54 | #1,667 |
| 1994 | — | — | 59 | #1,565 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,836 | 21 | #3,161 |
| 1992 | — | — | 24 | #2,852 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,840 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,441 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,470 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,227 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,553 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,467 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,433 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #2,979 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #3,916 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,093 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,637 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,282 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,459 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,203 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #2,927 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,501 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,691 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,349 |
| 1973 | — | — | 21 | #1,991 |
| 1972 | — | — | 21 | #1,979 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,580 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,753 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,567 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,208 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,117 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,475 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,066 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,587 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,287 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,164 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,394 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,530 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,796 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,790 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #3,989 |
| 1904 | — | — | 6 | #1,081 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).