# Cannon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cannon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,207 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,978 / 229 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | 17,815 |
| 2010 | 10 | 10,574 |
| 2011 | 5 | 17,275 |
| 2012 | 9 | 11,455 |
| 2013 | 9 | 11,193 |
| 2015 | 7 | 13,280 |
| 2016 | 17 | 6,965 |
| 2017 | 13 | 8,370 |
| 2018 | 7 | 12,747 |
| 2019 | 13 | 8,226 |
| 2020 | 15 | 7,286 |
| 2021 | 14 | 7,712 |
| 2022 | 7 | 12,500 |
| 2023 | 10 | 9,752 |
| 2024 | 6 | 13,808 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 493 | 519 |
| 2012 | 492 | 531 |
| 2013 | 491 | 542 |
| 2014 | 509 | 543 |
| 2015 | 473 | 585 |
| 2016 | 531 | 543 |
| 2017 | 505 | 550 |
| 2018 | 521 | 540 |
| 2019 | 565 | 508 |
| 2020 | 522 | 542 |
| 2021 | 581 | 506 |
| 2022 | 469 | 600 |
| 2023 | 431 | 641 |
| 2024 | 332 | 763 |
| 2025 | 374 | 722 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.