Kanaan
- #2,641 for boys in 2025, 49 births
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 87 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,193since 1990
Kanaan over time
Rank among boys' names. Kanaan 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,641 | 49 |
| 2024 | #2,190 | 66 |
| 2023 | #2,315 | 60 |
| 2022 | #1,938 | 80 |
| 2021 | #1,884 | 81 |
| 2020 | #1,788 | 84 |
| 2019 | #1,974 | 74 |
| 2018 | #1,762 | 87 |
| 2017 | #1,844 | 80 |
| 2016 | #1,959 | 74 |
| 2015 | #2,429 | 52 |
| 2014 | #3,891 | 26 |
| 2013 | #3,964 | 25 |
| 2012 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #4,356 | 22 |
| 2010 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #3,162 | 36 |
| 2008 | #4,267 | 23 |
| 2007 | #4,127 | 24 |
| 2006 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #3,534 | 26 |
| 2003 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
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| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kanaan! It came in at #4,993, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1992, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kanaan is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
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- Not published
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- North Carolina#1,277 · 1 in 10,294
Best ever in a state: #541 in South Carolina, 2019.
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| North Carolina | #1,277 | 5 | 1 in 10,294 |
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See more about Kanaan
- 451 spots since 2024 (#2,190 → #2,641)
- 853 spots since 2020 (#1,788 → #2,641)
- 212 spots since 2015 (#2,429 → #2,641)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2018 at #1,762 (87 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,549 boys born in 2020 were named Kanaan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,859 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,762 in 2018, was only 1 in 20,875 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.2% of all boys named Kanaan (491) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 80 | #4,762 (1999) | #6,331 |
| 2000s | 202 | #3,162 (2009) | #4,608 |
| 2010s | 491 | #1,762 (2018) | #3,007 |
| 2020s | 420 | #1,788 (2020) | #2,126 |
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.
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