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Kanon

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Kanon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
420.00% of boys
Peak year
2015127 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1972
1,653people given the name
Babies named Kanon, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,495 boys have been named Kanon in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 127 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 55%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 158 girls have also been given it, 9.6% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Kanon
1970s6
1980s7
1990s87
2000s324
2010s825
2020s246

In 2015, its biggest year

Kanon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Kanon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.