as a Last Name
- 77,151
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Cannon
Meaning & Origins
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Canann or Ó Canann (Ulster), or Ó Canáin (County Galway) ‘son (Mac) or descendant (Ó) of Canán’, a personal name derived from cano ‘wolf cub’. In Ulster it may also be from Ó Canannáin ‘descendant of Canannán’, a diminutive of the personal name.
| 419th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 77,151
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Delaware
- has the most people named Cannon per capita
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