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Kanen vs Kannon

American parents have registered 6,181 Kannons since 1880, against 613 Kanens. Kannon is still ahead, with 274 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kanen against Kannon, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kanen 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

Kannon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Kanen had 9 and Kannon had 11.

Side by side

  Kanen Kannon
Total US births 6136,181
Most in one year 42534
Babies in 2025 18274
Estimated living today 6106,100
Median age today 107
Peak year 20162020
Best rank 2,838th boys537th boys
Rank in 2025 5,208th903rd
First recorded 19941972
Girls / boys 0 / 613141 / 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 Kanens alive today are over 10; half the Kannons are over 7. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kanen and Kannon.