Meaning not yet researched.
Kanon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,372 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,372 in 2015; #3,809 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Kanon in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,809 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,372.
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Kanon: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,372 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 127 (2015).
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Kanon, making it the 3,809th most common boys’ name of the year, down 827 places from #2,982 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 42 boys named Kanon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,372, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 127. For comparison, it was #1,372 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Kanon, making it the 14,035th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,256 places from #12,779 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 7 girls named Kanon in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #7,919, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 16. For comparison, it was #15,426 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kanon in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 6 babies. In all, 1,688 US babies have been given the name, 9.7% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 887 babies named Kanon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 678 US boys were named Kanon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 124. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cannon (11,207 babies since 1880), Kannon (6,181 babies since 1880), Canyon (4,086 babies since 1880) and Canon (2,792 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Kanon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,035 | 29 | #3,809 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,779 | 42 | #2,982 |
| 2023 | — | — | 43 | #2,922 |
| 2022 | — | — | 45 | #2,848 |
| 2021 | — | — | 59 | #2,339 |
| 2020 | — | — | 57 | #2,357 |
| 2019 | — | — | 89 | #1,758 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,697 | 95 | #1,676 |
| 2017 | — | — | 95 | #1,670 |
| 2016 | — | — | 124 | #1,416 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,426 | 127 | #1,372 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,482 | 83 | #1,807 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,446 | 67 | #2,034 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,426 | 54 | #2,370 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,759 | 48 | #2,565 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,965 | 43 | #2,809 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,035 | 45 | #2,729 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,919 | 39 | #3,040 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,274 | 44 | #2,742 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,961 | 31 | #3,422 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,100 | 33 | #3,128 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,062 | 26 | #3,589 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,012 | 32 | #3,023 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,871 | 31 | #2,982 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,394 | 23 | #3,675 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,237 | 20 | #3,999 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,479 | 13 | #5,179 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,527 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,366 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,505 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,710 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,099 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,462 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,952 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,757 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,788 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,718 |
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).