Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1966–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.
2014 is the peak year for Gannon, with 751 births. The name does not appear in the data until 1966. It reaches the top 1,000 in 11 years of the record.
As of 2025 the name sits at #2,207, with 64 births that year. Compared with 2015, births are down 88%. It slipped 345 places against the previous year.
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.
How many people are named Gannon?
An estimated 6,600 living Americans are called Gannon. SSA has recorded 6,682 births under the name since 1880.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is
multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table.
How the estimate works.
How old is the average Gannon?
Half of living Gannons are older than 12, half younger. More of them were born in the 2010s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Gannon a current name.
Your Gannon
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.
Where Gannon is most common
Iowa uses the name 3.1× as often as the country as a whole. Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio follow.
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Gannon is over-represented, 2016–2025.
The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.