Meaning not yet researched.
Kanan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 194 in 2025. Its best rank was #993 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #993 in 2022; #1,109 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kanan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,109 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #993.
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Kanan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 194 boys in 2025. Peak: #993 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 225 (2022).
In 2025, 194 US boys were named Kanan, making it the 1,109th most common boys’ name of the year, up 27 places from #1,136 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 186 boys named Kanan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #993, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 225. For comparison, it was #3,000 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kanan in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 1,820 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,067 babies named Kanan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,524 US boys were named Kanan; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 225. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,805 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kanan ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #300 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), Canon (2,792 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 Kanan 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 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 11 | #300 | — |
| South Carolina | 10 | #483 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #596 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #628 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #646 | — |
| North Carolina | 12 | #742 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #756 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #886 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #928 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,049 | — |
| Texas | 21 | #1,083 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,106 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,163 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,167 | #1,252 |
| California | 17 | #1,175 | #2,750 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,377 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,898 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 194 | #1,109 |
| 2024 | — | — | 186 | #1,136 |
| 2023 | — | — | 198 | #1,085 |
| 2022 | — | — | 225 | #993 |
| 2021 | — | — | 162 | #1,199 |
| 2020 | — | — | 102 | #1,595 |
| 2019 | — | — | 128 | #1,391 |
| 2018 | — | — | 160 | #1,190 |
| 2017 | — | — | 102 | #1,589 |
| 2016 | — | — | 67 | #2,102 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #3,000 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #7,851 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,227 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,378 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,792 |
| 2010 | — | — | 12 | #6,897 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,429 |
| 2008 | — | — | 14 | #6,259 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,349 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,602 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #7,990 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,059 | 10 | #7,274 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #6,062 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,315 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,827 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,771 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,208 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,697 |
| 1996 | — | — | 15 | #4,286 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,707 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,276 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #5,988 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,950 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,756 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,251 | — | — |
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).