Canon Family History
Canon Name Meaning
English Irish (Donegal) and Scottish (Dunbartonshire): variant of Cannon . French: topographic name from (Old) French canon ‘tube pipe channel (for water flow)’. Compare Cannon . Americanized form of Assyrian/Chaldean Kanon and perhaps also of any of its variants such as Kanoun.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022