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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Canyon is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Idaho#310 · 1 in 1,145
- Utah#316 · 1 in 1,280
- Arkansas#437 · 1 in 1,857
- Kentucky#572 · 1 in 3,309
- Oklahoma#704 · 1 in 3,591
Best ever in a state: #257 in Utah, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Idaho | #310 | 7 | 1 in 1,145 |
| Utah | #316 | 15 | 1 in 1,280 |
| Arkansas | #437 | 7 | 1 in 1,857 |
| Kentucky | #572 | 6 | 1 in 3,309 |
| Oklahoma | #704 | 5 | 1 in 3,591 |
| Arizona | #806 | 6 | 1 in 5,437 |
| Missouri | #856 | 5 | 1 in 5,709 |
| Indiana | #940 | 5 | 1 in 6,551 |
| Texas | #973 | 22 | 1 in 7,778 |
| California | #1,136 | 18 | 1 in 10,521 |
| Ohio | #1,233 | 5 | 1 in 10,843 |
| North Carolina | #1,265 | 5 | 1 in 10,207 |
| Florida | #1,581 | 6 | 1 in 15,460 |
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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 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 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 96,521 of them was named Canyon, which outranked 62.1% 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).
- #6,414Zelina18
- #6,414Zhane18
- #6,414Zohra18
- #6,691Canyon17
- #6,691Abena17
- #6,691Adama17
- #6,691Adaora17
- #6,967Aairah16
- #6,967Aalyah16
- #6,967Aaron16
Tied with 275 names at #6,691; 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 10,476 of them was named Canyon, which outranked 91.6% 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).