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Kannon

#904 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Kannon has been given to 6,181 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #904 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 526 recorded.

Babies named Kannon, 2025

1 in 12,600

Kannon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kannon: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kannon means

Kannon has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Kannon

A separate documented entry treats Kannon as a form of Guanyin. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Kannon as a variant of Cannon. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,040 boys were recorded with the name Kannon between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 526 in 2020; its best national rank was #539 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #539 in 2020 to #904 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #855 in 2015 to #904 in 2025.

In the United States, 141 girls were recorded with the name Kannon between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2019; its best national rank was #8,829 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,592 in 2020 to #9,149 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,792 in 2015 to #9,149 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kannon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,600
263 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,490
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#904
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,738 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kannon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,738 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kannon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kannons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kannon was born before 2018 — so the typical Kannon is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,040
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.1% of all recorded uses (2,786).

Is Kannon 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
+83
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−365
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−49
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2020 (526)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#539
2020

Spellings of Kannon

Kannon is not the most common spelling — Landon is, with 41.8% against Kannon's 1.4%.

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.

Where Kannon is used

Across 2016–2025, Kannon was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 980 boys, against 1 in 4,246 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

2102 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 980
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 1,282
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 1,515
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 1,587
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 1,786
  6. 6Alabama1 in 1,852
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 2,273
  8. 8Georgia1 in 2,326

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Kannon is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 85% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kannon around the world

Where Kannon 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.

  • Canada
    2011–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2005–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kannon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#904
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 365
Best rank ever
#539
2020
Peak year
2020
526 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,040
Count in 2025
263

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,149
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,443
Best rank ever
#8,829
2019
Peak year
2019
12 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
141
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Kannon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Kannon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kannon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kannon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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