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Gannon

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Gannon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 86 births. Its best rank was 414th, in 2014.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
860.01% of boys
Peak year
2014751 births
Best rank
#414in 2014
Since 1966
6,611people given the name
Babies named Gannon, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

6,611 boys have been named Gannon in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 751 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 46%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Gannon
1960s25
1970s179
1980s157
1990s641
2000s1,846
2010s3,035
2020s728

In 2014, its biggest year

Gannon was the 414th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.

Names that rose and fell with Gannon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.