# Canon (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/canon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,644 |
| US rank (2010) | 11,839 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 116,772 people |
| Change since 2000 | +9.9% (2,405 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English, Scottish, and Irish surname, variant of Cannon. * As a French topographical surname, from placenames derived from canne (“reed, cane, tube”). * As a Chaldean/Chaldean Neo-Aramaic surname, variant of Kanon, Kanoun, from [script needed] (Kānūn), the Classical Syriac name of the ninth and tenth months of the Assyrian calendar, from ܟܢܘܢ ܒ.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Canon in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 69% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 15% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 5.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 3.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Canon in the Austrian Empire.

## People named Canon

- Hans Canon, Austrian painter (1829-1885)

## Similar surnames

Cannon, Canino, Cannan, Cimino, Coenen, Conine, Coman, Cowman, Caamano, Counihan, Coonan.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.