Kanaan
Kanaan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 66 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 660.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201887 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1990
- 1,144people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,144 boys have been named Kanaan in the United States since 1990, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 87 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 43%.
By decade
In 2018, its biggest year
Kanaan was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Kanaan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bravenpeak 2018
- Kannonpeak 2020
- Nashpeak 2021
- Kilianpeak 2023
- Cedarpeak 2022
- Gryffinpeak 2019
- Matteopeak 2024
- Kabirpeak 2021
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.