Gannon
About 6,682 American babies have been named Gannon since 1966, most of them around 2014. Its origin is given as a surname. In 2025 it ranked 2,207th. About 6,600 Gannons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Gannon boys named Gannon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,682
- Estimated living today
- 6,600
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 414th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,207th
- First recorded
- 1966
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 6,677
How old the living Gannons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,682 babies given the name since 1966, about 6,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 4,100 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Derived from Irish Mag Fhionnáin "son of Finan".
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Gannon is most common
Across the country Gannon is recorded 1.35 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Gannons are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Gannon peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.