Gannon

14,383 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gannon in the 2020 census, making it the 2,451st most common in the country. That is about one person in 20,800.

By the numbers

People: 14,383
Rank: 2,451st
How common: 1 in 20,800
Per 100,000: 4.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Derived from Irish Mag Fhionnáin "son of Finan".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Gannon

Jim Gannon (born 1968)footballer; football manager

People named Gannon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gannon

Also a first name

Gannon has been given to 6,682 American babies as a first name since 1966, peaking in 2014. 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.