Canon

Canon is the 11,953rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,500 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 120,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,500
Rank: 11,953rd
How common: 1 in 120,000
Per 100,000: 0.84

Where the name comes from

As an English, Scottish, and Irish surname, variant of Cannon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Canon described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 65.4%
Hispanic or Latino 18.2%
Black, not Hispanic 5.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Canon

Also a first name

Canon has been given to 2,792 American babies as a first name since 1971, peaking in 2019. 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.