Cannon
Cannon was given to 374 boys in 2025, #722 among boys’ names; 11,207 Americans have been recorded with it since 1904 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,000 Americans named Cannon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cannon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cannon?
#722 among boys’ names, 2025
Cannon fell from #585 in 2015 to #722 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.25 to 0.22 per 1,000.
595 babies in 2021, the peak
Cannon peaked in 2021, when 595 babies were given it (581 boys, #506 among boys’ names). The 374 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 374 | #722 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 332 | #763 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 431 | #641 | 0.25 |
| 2022 | 469 | #600 | 0.27 |
| 2021 | 581 | #506 | 0.33 |
| 2020 | 522 | #542 | 0.30 |
| 2019 | 565 | #508 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 521 | #540 | 0.29 |
| 2017 | 505 | #550 | 0.27 |
| 2016 | 531 | #543 | 0.28 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 473 | #585 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 509 | #543 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 491 | #542 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 492 | #531 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 493 | #519 | 0.26 |
| 2010 | 414 | #600 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 400 | #623 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 385 | #638 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 315 | #728 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 263 | #788 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 257 | #772 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 213 | #834 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 191 | #883 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,114 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,112 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 119 | #1,161 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 95 | #1,281 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,403 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 73 | #1,467 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,368 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 54 | #1,662 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 59 | #1,560 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,155 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,846 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,834 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,436 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,464 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,222 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,548 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,464 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,430 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,978 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,914 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,091 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,635 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,281 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,457 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,201 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,926 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,689 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,347 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 21 | #1,990 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 21 | #1,979 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,579 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,752 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,566 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,116 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,474 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,065 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,586 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,285 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,162 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,392 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,529 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,795 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,789 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #3,987 | 0.01 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,080 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cannon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,207 Americans recorded as Cannon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 374 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cannon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cannon, and how old are they?
11,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,207 Americans ever recorded as Cannon. The median Cannon alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 7,963 people named Cannon (247 women and girls, 7,716 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,436 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 138 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 404 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,370 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Cannon born?
The states with the most babies named Cannon are Texas, Florida and Tennessee, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 64 | #519 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 22 | #705 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 21 | #389 | 2.1× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #516 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 18 | #569 | 1.5× |
| California | 16 | #1,209 | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 14 | #374 | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 14 | #487 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 10 | #563 | 1.2× |
| Alabama | 10 | #487 | 1.5× |
Where Cannon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cannon is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cannon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,620 babies since 1880, Cannon is the most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 374 of their 1,144 babies (33%), again the most given.
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 Cannon
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 Cannon and names like it
- Compare Cannon and KannonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCannon peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cannon since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Cannon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cannon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.