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.
Where Canaan is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#389 · 1 in 2,625
- Tennessee#489 · 1 in 3,143
- Alabama#508 · 1 in 3,138
- Oklahoma#605 · 1 in 3,572
- Georgia#666 · 1 in 4,707
Best ever in a state: #228 in West Virginia, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #389 | 9 | 1 in 2,625 |
| Tennessee | #489 | 12 | 1 in 3,143 |
| Alabama | #508 | 8 | 1 in 3,138 |
| Oklahoma | #605 | 6 | 1 in 3,572 |
| Georgia | #666 | 13 | 1 in 4,707 |
| Louisiana | #691 | 6 | 1 in 4,191 |
| Virginia | #752 | 7 | 1 in 6,139 |
| Ohio | #789 | 9 | 1 in 7,159 |
| Indiana | #845 | 5 | 1 in 7,658 |
| North Carolina | #978 | 6 | 1 in 9,286 |
| Texas | #1,345 | 11 | 1 in 17,200 |
| California | #2,532 | 5 | 1 in 50,834 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 171,903 of them was named Canaan, which outranked 50.8% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,476Zyaria12
- #9,476Zyia12
- #9,476Zyionna12
- #10,084Canaan11
- #10,084Aamani11
- #10,084Aashrita11
- #10,084Aashvi11
- #10,807Aalliyah10
- #10,807Aalyssa10
- #10,807Aanshi10
Tied with 722 names at #10,084; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 13,601 of them was named Canaan, which outranked 91.9% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,175Torin152
- #1,180Alexandre151
- #1,180Gian151
- #1,182Canaan150
- #1,182Daquan150
- #1,182Nery150
- #1,182Rico150
- #1,188Abner149
- #1,188Coleton149
- #1,188Kooper149
Tied with 5 names at #1,182; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.