Kannan
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Tamil
- US rank, 2025
- #5,397 for boys
Kannan is a boys' name of Tamil origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,397th for boys in the US (17 babies).
What does Kannan mean?
Tamil
A male given name from Tamil or Malayalam.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Kannan a girl's or a boy's name?
Kannan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kannan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,397among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 17about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 14% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 17 boys in the US were named Kannan, making it the 5,397th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,447th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 26 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Kannan in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 979 boys in the US were given Kannan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #347, up from #5,397 for this spelling alone.
Kannan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,397 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,464 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,216 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,566 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,490 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,447 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,476 |
| 2018 | 26 | #3,989 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,742 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,775 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,742 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,650 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,002 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,585 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,432 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 9 | #7,992 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,238 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,438 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,832 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,472 |
Names like Kannan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Finnegan Kayden Keegan Declan Ronan Brayden Finn Kellan Kenan Aiden Kian Raiden
Other spellings of Kannan
Names related to Kannan
More Tamil names
Nila Aathiran Iniya Aadhiran Nilah Kavin Aadhav Adhiran Venba Athiran Kayal Oviya Kalai Valli Nithila Iniyan
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kannan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kannan, updated 20 October 2026.