Name Trends

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How popular is “Canon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Canon” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Canon” 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 “Canon” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Canon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Canon” 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
1971 8 0.000002331 8 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 -100%
1986 11 0.000003092 5 6 -9%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 -100%
1992 11 0.000002864 11 -100%
1993 21 0.00000557 6 15 -43%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 -100%
1995 23 0.00000628 23 -100%
1996 25 0.000006855 25 -100%
1997 41 0.000011308 41 -100%
1998 29 0.000007884 29 -100%
1999 38 0.000010287 38 -100%
2000 50 0.000013228 50 -100%
2001 36 0.000009617 36 -100%
2002 61 0.000016318 61 -100%
2003 79 0.000020777 79 -100%
2004 79 0.000020676 79 -100%
2005 87 0.000022628 87 -100%
2006 104 0.000026288 104 -100%
2007 99 0.000024764 99 -100%
2008 115 0.000029257 6 109 -90%
2009 106 0.000027747 106 -100%
2010 108 0.000029223 108 -100%
2011 127 0.00003472 7 120 -89%
2012 117 0.00003199 117 -100%
2013 100 0.00002743 100 -100%
2014 127 0.000034265 127 -100%
2015 86 0.000023238 86 -100%
2016 89 0.000024259 89 -100%
2017 120 0.000033555 7 113 -88%
2018 120 0.000034131 5 115 -92%
2019 129 0.000037166 129 -100%
2020 114 0.000034126 114 -100%
2021 98 0.000028926 98 -100%
2022 112 0.000033105 112 -100%
2023 86 0.000025972 86 -100%
2024 82 0.000024636 82 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Canon:

  1. Cannen
  2. Cannie
  3. Cannin
  4. Cannon
  5. Cannyn
  6. Canon (this page)
  7. Cansas
  8. Cansu
  9. Cante
  10. Cantina
  11. Canton