The pretty rare name Gannon is originally an English form of the Irish surname Mag Fhionnáin meaning ‘son of Fionnán’. This name stands for ‘white-haired’ or ‘white-skinned’.
Gannon is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Gannon isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Gannon ranks 723. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Gannon. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Gannon.
The pretty rare name Gannon is originally an English form of the Irish surname Mag Fhionnáin meaning ‘son of Fionnán’. This name stands for ‘white-haired’ or ‘white-skinned’.
Gannon is, as a first name, only used... in the US and first appeared in the 1960s.
Gannon is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Gannon cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #396 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2014. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Gannon, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Gannon seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gannon was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
143 babies were named Gannon in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,128,853 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Gannon ranked 1,209 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Gannon, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 38 states are home to men and boys named Gannon. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Gannon living in one state or another. If your name is Gannon and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Kansas, which has the most people named Gannon relative to the population, you still have to ask 12,597 men and boys their names before you hear Gannon as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not really common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with G. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Gannon is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 2.8% of all boys' names beginning with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with G that are quite popular, the most common at present is George.
If your name is Gannon and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gannon, you can simply say:
Goat
Apple
Nut
Nut
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gannon
Gannon
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
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N
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N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
A
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O
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Gannon sounds like this:
