Hannon
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hannon has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% boys, 14% girls all-time.
Babies named Hannon, 2023
1 in 663,000
Hannon over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Hannon over time
In 2023, Hannon went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Hannon?
Hannon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hannon sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hannon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hannons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hannon was born before 2012 — so the typical Hannon is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 37.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 62.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 45
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Hannon rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2016 (8)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Hannon
Hannon is not the most common spelling — Landon is, with 54.2% against Hannon's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Hannon around the world
Where Hannon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1992–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Hannon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Hannon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hannon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.