Kanan vs Kannon
American parents have registered 6,181 Kannons since 1880, against 1,820 Kanans. Kannon is still ahead, with 274 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Kanan Kannon
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 40 years in which either name was published, Kannon for 37 years and Kanan for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.
Side by side
| Kanan | Kannon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,820 | 6,181 |
| Most in one year | 225 | 534 |
| Babies in 2025 | 194 | 274 |
| Estimated living today | 1,800 | 6,100 |
| Median age today | 4 | 7 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 2020 |
| Best rank | 993rd boys | 537th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,108th | 903rd |
| First recorded | 1982 | 1972 |
| Girls / boys | 11 / 1,809 | 141 / 6,040 |
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 Kannons alive today are over 7; half the Kanans are over 4. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Kanan Louisiana (3.1×), South Carolina (2.5×), North Carolina (2.4×)
- Kannon Oklahoma (3.1×), Louisiana (2.4×), Arkansas (2.3×)
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: Kanan and Kannon.