Meaning not yet researched.
Gannon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #414 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #414 in 2014; #2,216 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gannon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,216 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #414.
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Gannon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 boys in 2025. Peak: #414 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 751 (2014).
In 2025, 64 US boys were named Gannon, making it the 2,216th most common boys’ name of the year, down 350 places from #1,866 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 86 boys named Gannon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #414, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 751. For comparison, it was #532 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gannon in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 6,682 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,042 babies named Gannon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,876 US boys were named Gannon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 346. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,689 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gannon ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #991 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Ganon, Gannen and Gannyn 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ganon (271), Gannen (30), Gannyn (7), Ganyn (7).
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 Gannon 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 5 | #991 | #279 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 64 | #2,216 |
| 2024 | — | — | 86 | #1,866 |
| 2023 | — | — | 97 | #1,719 |
| 2022 | — | — | 144 | #1,311 |
| 2021 | — | — | 200 | #1,068 |
| 2020 | — | — | 201 | #1,028 |
| 2019 | — | — | 189 | #1,074 |
| 2018 | — | — | 247 | #884 |
| 2017 | — | — | 302 | #776 |
| 2016 | — | — | 346 | #707 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,363 | 535 | #532 |
| 2014 | — | — | 751 | #414 |
| 2013 | — | — | 254 | #841 |
| 2012 | — | — | 174 | #1,077 |
| 2011 | — | — | 114 | #1,442 |
| 2010 | — | — | 125 | #1,361 |
| 2009 | — | — | 156 | #1,160 |
| 2008 | — | — | 184 | #1,034 |
| 2007 | — | — | 187 | #1,018 |
| 2006 | — | — | 217 | #897 |
| 2005 | — | — | 192 | #917 |
| 2004 | — | — | 203 | #866 |
| 2003 | — | — | 283 | #684 |
| 2002 | — | — | 167 | #960 |
| 2001 | — | — | 129 | #1,102 |
| 2000 | — | — | 128 | #1,100 |
| 1999 | — | — | 107 | #1,196 |
| 1998 | — | — | 118 | #1,092 |
| 1997 | — | — | 72 | #1,484 |
| 1996 | — | — | 72 | #1,436 |
| 1995 | — | — | 58 | #1,592 |
| 1994 | — | — | 58 | #1,589 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,024 |
| 1992 | — | — | 37 | #2,105 |
| 1991 | — | — | 36 | #2,065 |
| 1990 | — | — | 43 | #1,821 |
| 1989 | — | — | 19 | #3,133 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,002 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,058 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,627 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,266 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,736 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,301 |
| 1982 | — | — | 16 | #2,886 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,671 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,483 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,228 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #2,971 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,315 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,567 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,746 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,403 |
| 1973 | — | — | 17 | #2,345 |
| 1972 | — | — | 29 | #1,613 |
| 1971 | — | — | 43 | #1,280 |
| 1970 | — | — | 26 | #1,720 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,411 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,474 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,169 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,149 |
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).