# Gannon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gannon/  
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 | Irish |
| Meaning | “son of finan” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,682 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,677 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Derived from Irish Mag Fhionnáin "son of Finan".

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | 17,363 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 114 | 1,442 |
| 2012 | 174 | 1,077 |
| 2013 | 254 | 841 |
| 2014 | 751 | 414 |
| 2015 | 535 | 532 |
| 2016 | 346 | 707 |
| 2017 | 302 | 776 |
| 2018 | 247 | 884 |
| 2019 | 189 | 1,074 |
| 2020 | 201 | 1,028 |
| 2021 | 200 | 1,068 |
| 2022 | 144 | 1,311 |
| 2023 | 97 | 1,719 |
| 2024 | 86 | 1,866 |
| 2025 | 64 | 2,216 |

## 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.