About the name Kannon
Kannon belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Kannon first appears in Social Security records in 1972. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #540 in 2020, and in 2024 228 babies received the name — 5,775 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.