Meaning not yet researched.
Kanaan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,769 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,769 in 2018; #2,661 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kanaan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,661 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,769.
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Kanaan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,769 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 87 (2018).
In 2025, 49 US boys were named Kanaan, making it the 2,661st most common boys’ name of the year, down 461 places from #2,200 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 66 boys named Kanaan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,769, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 87. For comparison, it was #2,447 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kanaan in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 10 babies. In all, 1,193 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 491 babies named Kanaan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 735 US boys were named Kanaan; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 87. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,859 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kanaan ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,377 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kannon (6,181 babies since 1880), Canaan (6,167 babies since 1880), Kanan (1,820 babies since 1880) and Kanon (1,688 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 Kanaan 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,377 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 49 | #2,661 |
| 2024 | — | — | 66 | #2,200 |
| 2023 | — | — | 60 | #2,333 |
| 2022 | — | — | 80 | #1,943 |
| 2021 | — | — | 81 | #1,895 |
| 2020 | — | — | 84 | #1,792 |
| 2019 | — | — | 74 | #1,987 |
| 2018 | — | — | 87 | #1,769 |
| 2017 | — | — | 80 | #1,849 |
| 2016 | — | — | 74 | #1,964 |
| 2015 | — | — | 52 | #2,447 |
| 2014 | — | — | 26 | #3,960 |
| 2013 | — | — | 25 | #4,012 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,951 |
| 2011 | — | — | 22 | #4,435 |
| 2010 | — | — | 25 | #4,050 |
| 2009 | — | — | 36 | #3,194 |
| 2008 | — | — | 23 | #4,331 |
| 2007 | — | — | 24 | #4,187 |
| 2006 | — | — | 23 | #4,161 |
| 2005 | — | — | 19 | #4,561 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,588 |
| 2003 | — | — | 14 | #5,415 |
| 2002 | — | — | 15 | #5,027 |
| 2001 | — | — | 13 | #5,525 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,111 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,889 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #5,028 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,028 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,554 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,683 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,673 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,208 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,755 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,191 |
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).