Kanon
Kanon is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 29 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,031 among girls’ names and #3,808 among boys’, #7,188 among all names counting both); 1,688 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Kanon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kanon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kanon?
#3,808 among boys’ names, 2025
Kanon fell from #1,372 in 2015 to #3,808 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 66.3 to 17.0 per million.
133 babies in 2015, the peak
Kanon peaked in 2015, when 133 babies were given it (127 boys, #1,372 among boys’ names). The 35 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,808 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,981 | 24.4 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,921 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,846 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,338 | 33.7 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,356 | 33.0 |
| 2019 | 89 | #1,758 | 49.6 |
| 2018 | 95 | #1,676 | 52.3 |
| 2017 | 95 | #1,670 | 51.3 |
| 2016 | 124 | #1,416 | 65.3 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 127 | #1,372 | 66.3 |
| 2014 | 83 | #1,807 | 43.2 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,033 | 35.4 |
| 2012 | 54 | #2,369 | 28.5 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,564 | 25.3 |
| 2010 | 43 | #2,808 | 22.4 |
| 2009 | 45 | #2,728 | 22.7 |
| 2008 | 39 | #3,039 | 19.1 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,742 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,420 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,124 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,585 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,019 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,978 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,670 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,993 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,173 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,523 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,360 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,499 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,704 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,093 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,456 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,945 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,750 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,781 | 3.7 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,716 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kanon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,688 Americans recorded as Kanon, 10% are girls and 90% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kanon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kanon, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,688 Americans ever recorded as Kanon. The median Kanon alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,316 people named Kanon (182 women and girls, 1,134 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,401 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 55 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 989 |
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 Kanon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,635 | 0.3× |
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 Kanon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kanon?
Kanon is a less common spelling of Cannon: SSA has recorded 1,688 Kanon and 11,207 Cannon since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 33,199 babies since 1880, Kanon is the seventh most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 1,264 babies (2.8%), the eighth most given that year.
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 Kanon
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 Kanon and names like it
- Compare Kanon and CannonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKanon peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kanon since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Kanon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kanon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.