Name of a 1999 visual novel that was later adapted into two animes released in 2002 and 2006 respectively, despite the name, there are actually no characters named Kanon and the title instead comes from German composer Johann Pachelbel‘s music piece “Canon in D major”.
I am a Kanon from Japan and I also know quite a lot of Kanons. All the Kanons I know including me are named after the music piece, Kanon in D by Johann Pachelbel. Many of the mothers like classical music or are piano teachers. It’s become popular in the recent years, ranked 30th this year. However you wouldn’t find many Kanons in their 30s or above. There’s actually no meaning to it but if you use kanjis it would be like 〜音(〜music/sound of〜) I haven’t seen any boys named Kanon yet.
I really like this name, though it seems a bit youthful (perhaps because of the '-non' part.) But it is very nice. It's a simple pronunciation without too much room for error.
Kanon Tani is a Japanese child actress and tarento. Kobayashi has released two music singles as part of the duo Star Flower with fellow child actress Seiran Kobayashi.
This is a very pretty name. But my (American) accent keeps pronouncing this as "cannon", when I know it's KAH-non.
― Anonymous User 11/26/2009
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This is also a Greek noun. Greek - Kappa, Alpha, Nu, Omicron, Nu, means "standard rule or measure. Also used to refer to what exactly is contained in holy scriptures, e.g. "the Canon of the Church", though spelled with a "C".
The name of the heroine in Arina Tanemura's one-chapter bonus manga 'Gin-yu Mieka'. Her father is a composer who named one of his pieces after her: Kanon.