Kanan

Where Kanan comes from

Kanan hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1949
    Kanan Makiya born
    Iraqi-American academic and orientalist
  2. 1979
    Kanan Minami born
    Japanese manga artist
  3. 1991
    First appearance
    #7,271 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1991
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2022
    Peak, #993
    225 babies named Kanan — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kanan Minami · Japanese manga artist, born 1979
  • Kanan Makiya · Iraqi-American academic and orientalist, born 1949

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.