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How popular is “Cannon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cannon” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cannon” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cannon” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cannon” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cannon” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cannon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cannon” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 12 0.000003453 12 -100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 -100%
1971 14 0.000004079 14 -100%
1972 21 0.000006682 21 -100%
1973 21 0.000006961 21 -100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 -100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 14 0.000004407 14 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 13 0.000003774 13 -100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 -100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 -100%
1985 13 0.000003642 13 -100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 -100%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1988 16 0.00000433 16 -100%
1989 16 0.000004162 16 -100%
1990 28 0.000007084 28 -100%
1991 23 0.000005905 23 -100%
1992 24 0.000006248 24 -100%
1993 30 0.000007957 9 21 -40%
1994 59 0.00001587 59 -100%
1995 59 0.000016111 5 54 -83%
1996 84 0.000023031 6 78 -86%
1997 73 0.000020134 73 -100%
1998 81 0.000022022 81 -100%
1999 95 0.000025718 95 -100%
2000 119 0.000031482 119 -100%
2001 134 0.000035796 7 127 -90%
2002 137 0.000036648 7 130 -90%
2003 196 0.000051547 5 191 -95%
2004 225 0.000058886 12 213 -89%
2005 264 0.000068663 7 257 -95%
2006 273 0.000069006 10 263 -93%
2007 322 0.000080547 7 315 -96%
2008 392 0.000099729 7 385 -96%
2009 405 0.000106016 5 400 -98%
2010 424 0.000114727 10 414 -95%
2011 498 0.000136148 5 493 -98%
2012 501 0.000136984 9 492 -96%
2013 500 0.000137149 9 491 -96%
2014 509 0.000137331 509 -100%
2015 480 0.000129698 7 473 -97%
2016 548 0.000149372 17 531 -94%
2017 518 0.000144847 13 505 -95%
2018 528 0.000150175 7 521 -97%
2019 578 0.000166526 13 565 -96%
2020 537 0.000160751 15 522 -94%
2021 594 0.000175327 14 580 -95%
2022 476 0.000140698 7 469 -97%
2023 441 0.000133184 10 431 -95%
2024 337 0.000101247 6 331 -96%

Explore other names

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