Meaning not yet researched.
Kannon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 263 in 2025. Its best rank was #539 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #539 in 2020; #904 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Kannon in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#904 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #539.
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Kannon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 263 boys in 2025. Peak: #539 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 526 (2020).
In 2025, 263 US boys were named Kannon, making it the 904th most common boys’ name of the year, up 83 places from #987 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 228 boys named Kannon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #539, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 526. For comparison, it was #855 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kannon in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 6 babies. In all, 6,181 US babies have been given the name, 2.3% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,848 babies named Kannon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,808 US boys were named Kannon; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 526. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,495 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kannon ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #301 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), Canyon (4,086 babies since 1880), Canon (2,792 babies since 1880) and Kanan (1,820 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kainan, Kanen and Kanin 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: Kainan (906), Kanen (613), Kanin (390), Kaynen (378), Kaynan (251), Kaenan (156), Kainin (48), Kaynin (35), Kainyn (33), Kanyen (33), Kaanan (33), Kaenen (16), 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 Kannon 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 11 | #301 | #587 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #350 | #312 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #436 | #479 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #526 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #597 | #565 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #598 | #517 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #607 | — |
| Florida | 23 | #693 | #1,231 |
| Alabama | 6 | #718 | #355 |
| Georgia | 13 | #736 | #720 |
| Indiana | 8 | #740 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #766 | #527 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #769 | #1,253 |
| Texas | 34 | #799 | #710 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #811 | #468 |
| Missouri | 6 | #830 | #635 |
| Colorado | 5 | #908 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #954 | #848 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,069 | #710 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,205 | #1,435 |
| California | 14 | #1,333 | #1,243 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,152 | 263 | #904 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,673 | 228 | #987 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,687 | 300 | #818 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,702 | 411 | #664 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,247 | 469 | #593 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,597 | 526 | #539 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,834 | 475 | #585 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,465 | 460 | #596 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,988 | 377 | #670 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,245 | 299 | #793 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,797 | 263 | #855 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,828 | 234 | #917 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,546 | 204 | #984 |
| 2012 | — | — | 173 | #1,082 |
| 2011 | — | — | 158 | #1,144 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,383 | 143 | #1,236 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,203 | 151 | #1,201 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,419 | 148 | #1,196 |
| 2007 | — | — | 111 | #1,454 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,098 | 92 | #1,589 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,425 | 73 | #1,794 |
| 2004 | — | — | 81 | #1,613 |
| 2003 | — | — | 117 | #1,241 |
| 2002 | — | — | 70 | #1,690 |
| 2001 | — | — | 30 | #3,029 |
| 2000 | — | — | 28 | #3,117 |
| 1999 | — | — | 23 | #3,440 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,929 |
| 1997 | — | — | 30 | #2,647 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #3,926 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,330 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,674 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,531 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,446 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,907 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,805 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,540 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,540 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,717 |
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).