Canaan
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #1,044 for boys in 2025, 212 births
Given to boys 94.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 385 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,843since 1973
Canaan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #1,044 | 212 |
| 2024 | — | #1,082 | 201 | |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #1,111 | 190 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #959 | 236 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #954 | 236 |
| 2020 | — | #950 | 231 | |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #845 | 265 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | #827 | 270 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #745 | 318 |
| 2016 | — | #669 | 385 | |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #806 | 285 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #1,074 | 180 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,203 | 149 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | #1,084 | 172 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #1,136 | 159 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 | #1,137 | 163 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 | #1,226 | 146 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #1,182 | 150 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #1,277 | 137 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #1,091 | 161 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #1,253 | 126 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #1,271 | 118 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | #1,224 | 119 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #1,332 | 99 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,231 | 108 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #1,361 | 93 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #1,457 | 79 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #1,301 | 91 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #1,310 | 87 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #1,400 | 75 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #1,706 | 52 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #1,664 | 54 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #1,554 | 58 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #1,844 | 44 |
| 1991 | — | #1,823 | 43 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,587 | 52 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #2,169 | 27 |
| 1986 | — | #3,131 | 15 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,942 | 16 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,098 | 25 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,687 | 34 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,831 | 16 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,338 | 21 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | — | #3,018 | 14 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,614 | 10 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,361 | 19 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,264 | 11 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,946 | 12 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Canaan! It came in at #4,505, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
See more about Canaan
- 38 spots since 2024 (#1,082 → #1,044)
- 94 spots since 2020 (#950 → #1,044)
- 238 spots since 2015 (#806 → #1,044)
- Biggest jump: 268 spots in 2015 (#1,074 → #806)
- Biggest drop: 152 spots in 2023 (#959 → #1,111)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2016 at #669 (385 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2015–2022
- Highest: 1 in 4,929 boys born in 2016 were named Canaan (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,057 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.2% of all boys named Canaan (2,346) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 82 | #2,361 (1977) | #3,305 |
| 1980s | 217 | #1,687 (1983) | #2,523 |
| 1990s | 635 | #1,301 (1998) | #1,565 |
| 2000s | 1,257 | #1,091 (2006) | #1,245 |
| 2010s | 2,346 | #669 (2016) | #953 |
| 2020s | 1,306 | #950 (2020) | #1,017 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Canaan in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 234,409 of them was named Canaan, which outranked 30.9% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,146Zyleah8
- #11,146Zylia8
- #11,146Zyriah8
- #12,206Canaan7
- #12,206Aadhini7
- #12,206Aaditri7
- #12,206Aala7
- #13,464Aadhvika6
- #13,464Aakifah6
- #13,464Aaleya6
Tied with 1,257 names at #12,206; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 7,413 of them was named Canaan, which outranked 93.2% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.