girls:
5 births since 2015
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
6.5k births since 1966
#1462 (68th percentile)
overall:
6.5k births since 1966
#3343 (57th percentile)
The name Gannon is the #3,343 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,528 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 56.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,462 (68.1% percentile) for all time with 6,523 births since 1966. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2015.
Gannon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for boys and 2015 for girls).
The name Gannon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gannon reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 56.8% percentile (ranked #391) with 366 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 366 births per million (ranked 56.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gannon ranks #819 for boys (10.1% percentile) with 53 births per million, which is 14.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gannon reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #960) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gannon".
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