Cannon — #765 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cannon

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,602 babies named Cannon between 1904 and 2024, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cannon currently holds the #765 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 580 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cannon performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,994 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Cannon shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,414 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Cannon in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cannon in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 10,602 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.