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“One who perceives the world's cries; bodhisattva of compassion” — Japanese, via Chinese from Sanskrit origin
Boy's name · #904 in the US (2025) · 2020s
Kannon's best rank, #539, came in 2020; it has settled back to #904 today. Roughly 6,000 boys have been named Kannon since 1972. In Mississippi and Louisiana it runs about 4× its national rate. Together with its spelling variants Cannon (#722) and Canon (#2211), Kannon would rank around #448 with about 700 births last year — the newborns split about 53/38/9 across Cannon, Kannon, and Canon.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 32 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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