Cannon
68,041 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cannon in the 2020 census, making it the 480th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,393.
By the numbers
- People
- 68,041
- Rank
- 480th
- How common
- 1 in 4,393
- Per 100,000
- 22.8
Where the name comes from
As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Canann (“descendant of Cana”), Ó Canáin (“descendant of Canán”), from cana (“wolf cub”). Comparable to McCann, McConnon, Connon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Cannon described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Cannon
- Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941)American astronomer
- Dyan Cannon (born 1937)American film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer
- Walter Bradford Cannon (1871–1945)American physiologist
- Freddy Cannon (1936–2026)American rock and roll singer
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926)American politician
- Reggie Cannon (born 1998)American soccer player
- John Cannon (1933–1999)Canadian racing driver
- Joe Cannon (born 1975)American soccer player
People named Cannon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Cannon
Also a first name
Cannon has been given to 11,207 American babies as a first name since 1904, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.