girls:
36 births since 1986
#5680 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1971
#2474 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1971
#5226 (32nd percentile)
The name Canon is the #5,226 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,638 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 32.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,474 (46.0% percentile) for all time with 2,602 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,680 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1986.
Canon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Canon is available in 45 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (45 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Canon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Canon reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 13.5% percentile (ranked #793) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 67 births per million (ranked 13.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Canon ranks #832 for boys (8.7% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 68.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Canon reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #938) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Canon".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Canon", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 12 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Cannon" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Cannon..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Canon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Canon is pronounced as KA-nuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KUH-nuhn, at 9.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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