Canary
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 1913 · 13 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 428since 1900
Canary over time
Rank among girls' names. Canary has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | — | |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | — | |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,540 | 11 |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 |
| 1930 | #2,845 | 10 |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 |
| 1927 | #2,552 | 13 |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 |
| 1925 | #4,028 | 7 |
| 1924 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 |
| 1922 | #2,780 | 12 |
| 1921 | #2,633 | 13 |
| 1920 | #2,079 | 18 |
| 1919 | #3,219 | 9 |
| 1918 | #2,376 | 14 |
| 1917 | #2,316 | 14 |
| 1916 | #3,258 | 8 |
| 1915 | #2,255 | 13 |
| 1914 | #2,638 | 8 |
| 1913 | #1,670 | 13 |
| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 |
| 1911 | #2,463 | 5 |
| 1910 | #1,935 | 7 |
| 1909 | #1,957 | 6 |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 |
| 1906 | #1,951 | 5 |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,877 | 5 |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,679 | 5 |
| 1900 | #1,932 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Canary! It came in at #1,932, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1900–1906, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Canary
- 269 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1900
- Peaked 1913 at #1,670 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1934, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 47,869 girls born in 1901 were named Canary (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,670 in 1913, was only 1 in 48,042 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.2% of all girls named Canary (108) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 32 | #1,679 (1901) | #1,870 |
| 1910s | 98 | #1,670 (1913) | #2,449 |
| 1920s | 108 | #2,079 (1920) | #3,052 |
| 1930s | 51 | #2,540 (1933) | #3,147 |
| 1940s | 38 | #4,025 (1945) | #4,561 |
| 1950s | 51 | #4,202 (1957) | #5,121 |
| 1960s | 15 | #6,564 (1966) | #6,574 |
| 1970s | 5 | #8,775 (1974) | #8,775 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 8 | #11,356 (2019) | #11,356 |
| 2020s | 22 | #13,208 (2025) | #14,311 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Canary in 1900
Top girls' names in 1900
More about 1900
girls
299,784 girls got a published name in 1900; 1 in 59,957 of them was named Canary, which outranked 13.1% of the 2,223 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 291 names at #1,932; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 940Rosia#1,596 → #656
- ↑ 763Josiephine#1,596 → #833
- ↑ 763Lelar#1,596 → #833
- ↑ 736Carmel#1,596 → #860
- ↑ 722Gloria#1,278 → #556
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.