Candelaria vs Cannon
American parents have registered 11,207 Cannons since 1880, against 2,558 Candelarias. Cannon is still ahead, with 374 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Candelaria Cannon
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 125 years in which either name was published, Candelaria for 86 years and Cannon for 39 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.
- 1893–1971 Candelaria ahead
- 1972 Cannon ahead
- 1973–1976 Candelaria ahead
- 1977 Cannon ahead
- 1978–1987 Candelaria ahead
- 1988–1991 Cannon ahead
- 1992 Candelaria ahead
- 1993–2025 Cannon ahead
Side by side
| Candelaria | Cannon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,558 | 11,207 |
| Most in one year | 49 | 595 |
| Babies in 2025 | 28 | 374 |
| Estimated living today | 1,700 | 11,000 |
| Median age today | 33 | 11 |
| Peak year | 1929 | 2021 |
| Best rank | 1,042nd girls | 506th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,758th | 721st |
| First recorded | 1893 | 1904 |
| Girls / boys | 2,558 / 0 | 229 / 10,978 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Candelarias alive today are over 33; half the Cannons are over 11. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Candelaria New Mexico (10.7×), Texas (7.1×), California (3.4×)
- Cannon Utah (5.6×), Idaho (3.4×), Tennessee (2.8×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Candelaria and Cannon.