Canyon
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #1,602 for boys in 2025, 106 births
Given to boys 93.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 158 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,827since 1972
Canyon 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #1,602 | 106 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #1,426 | 128 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #1,390 | 133 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #1,269 | 152 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #1,179 | 167 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #1,473 | 116 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #1,494 | 114 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #1,458 | 119 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #1,467 | 115 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,339 | 133 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | #1,463 | 115 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #1,514 | 106 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #1,510 | 107 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #1,461 | 112 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #1,544 | 102 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #1,517 | 107 |
| 2009 | — | #1,367 | 125 | |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #1,414 | 119 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #1,223 | 144 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #1,112 | 157 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #1,128 | 145 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #1,046 | 155 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #1,001 | 158 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #1,315 | 101 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #1,337 | 97 |
| 2000 | — | #1,290 | 100 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,329 | 90 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,322 | 90 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #1,294 | 88 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #1,574 | 63 |
| 1995 | — | #1,527 | 62 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,894 | 44 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,697 | 26 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,604 | 17 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,231 | 13 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,407 | 12 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,446 | 16 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
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| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Canyon! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1978, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Canyon
- 176 spots since 2024 (#1,426 → #1,602)
- 129 spots since 2020 (#1,473 → #1,602)
- 139 spots since 2015 (#1,463 → #1,602)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2003 at #1,001 (158 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,476 boys born in 2021 were named Canyon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,114 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,001 in 2003, was only 1 in 12,502 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.0% of all boys named Canyon (1,301) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 39 | #3,963 (1972) | #4,577 |
| 1980s | 50 | #3,446 (1989) | #5,724 |
| 1990s | 505 | #1,294 (1997) | #2,388 |
| 2000s | 1,301 | #1,001 (2003) | #1,223 |
| 2010s | 1,130 | #1,339 (2016) | #1,477 |
| 2020s | 802 | #1,179 (2021) | #1,390 |
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.
Canyon in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 198,484 of them was named Canyon, which outranked 43.0% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,129Zully10
- #10,129Zulma10
- #10,129Zurii10
- #10,955Canyon9
- #10,955Aabha9
- #10,955Aakriti9
- #10,955Aala9
- #11,931Aailyah8
- #11,931Aaleigha8
- #11,931Aaliyana8
Tied with 975 names at #10,955; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 18,121 of them was named Canyon, which outranked 89.2% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,506Rickey107
- #1,506Taha107
- #1,506Trayvon107
- #1,514Canyon106
- #1,514Anish106
- #1,514Dakari106
- #1,514Damoni106
- #1,526Earl105
- #1,526Glen105
- #1,526Kelly105
Tied with 11 names at #1,514; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.