Meaning not yet researched.
Canon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,349 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,349 in 2014; #2,211 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Canon in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,211 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,349.
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Canon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,349 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 129 (2019).
In 2025, 64 US boys were named Canon, making it the 2,211th most common boys’ name of the year, down 288 places from #1,923 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 82 boys named Canon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,349, reached in 2014. The most boys given the name in a single year was 129, in 2019. For comparison, it was #1,768 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Canon in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 8 babies. In all, 2,792 US babies have been given the name, 1.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,123 babies named Canon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,002 US boys were named Canon; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 129. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,689 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Canon ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #782 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cannon (11,207 babies since 1880), Kannon (6,181 babies since 1880), Canaan (6,167 babies since 1880) and Canyon (4,086 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Canon 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 5 | #782 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #1,670 | #1,464 |
| California | 6 | #2,248 | #2,077 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,365 | 64 | #2,211 |
| 2024 | — | — | 82 | #1,923 |
| 2023 | — | — | 86 | #1,853 |
| 2022 | — | — | 112 | #1,577 |
| 2021 | — | — | 98 | #1,678 |
| 2020 | — | — | 114 | #1,491 |
| 2019 | — | — | 129 | #1,383 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,157 | 115 | #1,499 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,984 | 113 | #1,489 |
| 2016 | — | — | 89 | #1,743 |
| 2015 | — | — | 86 | #1,768 |
| 2014 | — | — | 127 | #1,349 |
| 2013 | — | — | 100 | #1,563 |
| 2012 | — | — | 117 | #1,420 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,634 | 120 | #1,386 |
| 2010 | — | — | 108 | #1,504 |
| 2009 | — | — | 106 | #1,547 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,768 | 109 | #1,496 |
| 2007 | — | — | 99 | #1,580 |
| 2006 | — | — | 104 | #1,469 |
| 2005 | — | — | 87 | #1,586 |
| 2004 | — | — | 79 | #1,632 |
| 2003 | — | — | 79 | #1,596 |
| 2002 | — | — | 61 | #1,852 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,626 |
| 2000 | — | — | 50 | #2,019 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,356 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,796 |
| 1997 | — | — | 41 | #2,135 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,936 |
| 1995 | — | — | 23 | #3,035 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,503 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,012 | 15 | #4,044 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,917 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,608 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,501 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,309 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,261 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,564 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,140 | 6 | #6,037 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,376 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,666 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #4,995 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,498 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,595 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,143 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,702 |
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).