Meaning not yet researched.
Kanyon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,921 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,921 in 2003; #3,996 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kanyon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,996 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,921.
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Kanyon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,921 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 66 (2007).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Kanyon, making it the 3,996th most common boys’ name of the year, down 148 places from #3,848 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 29 boys named Kanyon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,921, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 66, in 2007. For comparison, it was #3,188 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kanyon in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 7 babies. In all, 1,475 US babies have been given the name, 7.7% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 581 babies named Kanyon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 402 US boys were named Kanyon; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 59. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cannon (11,207 babies since 1880), Kannon (6,181 babies since 1880), Canyon (4,086 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 Kanyon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 27 | #3,996 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,848 |
| 2023 | — | — | 59 | #2,351 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,877 | 52 | #2,602 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,833 | 38 | #3,152 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,792 | 36 | #3,169 |
| 2019 | — | — | 34 | #3,395 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,699 | 46 | #2,689 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,110 | 37 | #3,160 |
| 2016 | — | — | 44 | #2,744 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,188 |
| 2014 | — | — | 57 | #2,311 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,570 | 33 | #3,300 |
| 2012 | — | — | 44 | #2,741 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,045 | 44 | #2,722 |
| 2010 | — | — | 40 | #2,938 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,699 | 57 | #2,310 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,195 | 51 | #2,489 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,660 | 66 | #2,080 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,100 | 62 | #2,117 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,350 | 62 | #2,024 |
| 2004 | — | — | 63 | #1,943 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,758 | 61 | #1,921 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,478 | 39 | #2,531 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,787 |
| 2000 | — | — | 49 | #2,072 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,546 | 36 | #2,495 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,255 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,853 | 23 | #3,213 |
| 1996 | — | — | 26 | #2,873 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,404 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,096 | 14 | #4,418 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,532 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,953 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,910 |
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).