Cannie
Cannie was last recorded in 1982, when 5 babies were given it; 230 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cannie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cannie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,709, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1893, the peak
Cannie peaked in 1893, when 11 girls were given it, #910 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | #10,709 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,473 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,331 | 3.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,498 | 2.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,807 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,921 | 5.6 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,292 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,076 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,699 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,695 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 7 | #4,063 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,224 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,466 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,837 | 9.7 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,690 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,305 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,930 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,696 | 6.6 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,000 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,521 | 12.0 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,254 | 14.4 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,115 | 15.7 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,558 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,380 | 29.1 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,332 | 30.5 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,292 | 30.0 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,581 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,221 | 33.6 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,446 | 25.7 |
| 1893 | 11 | #910 | 51.7 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,019 | 43.1 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,037 | 39.2 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,048 | 39.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cannie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 230 Americans recorded as Cannie, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cannie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cannie, and how old are they?
An estimated 21 Americans named Cannie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 127 people named Cannie (95 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 298 babies since 1880, Cannie is the most given (77% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cannie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cannie and names like it
- Compare Cannie and CannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sCannie peaked in 1893.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cannie since 1910.
- The top names of 1893The year the most babies were named Cannie.
- Names starting with CMost given first.