Meaning not yet researched.
Canyon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 106 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,002 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,002 in 2003; #1,604 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Canyon in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,604 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,002.
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Canyon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 106 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,002 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 167 (2021).
In 2025, 106 US boys were named Canyon, making it the 1,604th most common boys’ name of the year, down 177 places from #1,427 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 128 boys named Canyon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,002, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 167, in 2021. For comparison, it was #1,464 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Canyon in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 7 babies. In all, 4,086 US babies have been given the name, 6.3% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,383 babies named Canyon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,283 US boys were named Canyon; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 167. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,114 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Canyon ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #520 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cannon (11,207 babies since 1880), Kannon (6,181 babies since 1880), Canaan (6,167 babies since 1880) and Canon (2,792 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Canyon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 8 | #520 | #402 |
| Arizona | 5 | #941 | #679 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,022 | #979 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,374 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,494 | #1,301 |
| California | 8 | #1,855 | #1,558 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,255 | 106 | #1,604 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,412 | 128 | #1,427 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,992 | 133 | #1,390 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,715 | 152 | #1,269 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,744 | 167 | #1,179 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,431 | 116 | #1,473 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,639 | 114 | #1,497 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,240 | 119 | #1,459 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,861 | 115 | #1,468 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,057 | 133 | #1,342 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,776 | 115 | #1,464 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,165 | 106 | #1,515 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,207 | 107 | #1,512 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,769 | 112 | #1,461 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,635 | 102 | #1,546 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,320 | 107 | #1,518 |
| 2009 | — | — | 125 | #1,370 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,816 | 119 | #1,414 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,979 | 144 | #1,226 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,212 | 157 | #1,113 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,571 | 145 | #1,128 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,503 | 155 | #1,046 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,506 | 158 | #1,002 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,908 | 101 | #1,317 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,197 | 97 | #1,338 |
| 2000 | — | — | 100 | #1,290 |
| 1999 | — | — | 90 | #1,329 |
| 1998 | — | — | 90 | #1,323 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,100 | 88 | #1,297 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,865 | 63 | #1,576 |
| 1995 | — | — | 62 | #1,528 |
| 1994 | — | — | 44 | #1,898 |
| 1993 | — | — | 26 | #2,716 |
| 1992 | — | — | 17 | #3,627 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,265 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,446 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,471 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,438 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,448 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,179 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,499 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,402 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,381 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,460 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,006 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,577 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,239 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,574 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,025 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).