Kanaan
#2,661 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kanaan has been given to 1,193 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #2,661 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 87 recorded.
Babies named Kanaan, 2025
1 in 67,700
Kanaan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kanaan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 67,700
- 49 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 34,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,661
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 46,897 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kanaan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kanaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kanaans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kanaan was born before 2017 — so the typical Kanaan is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,193
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (491).
Is Kanaan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −461
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −869
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −215
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.94×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 56.3%
- Peak was 2018 (87)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kanaan
Kanaan is not the most common spelling — Ayaan is, with 14.1% against Kanaan's 1.9%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Kanaan is used
Across 2016–2025, Kanaan was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 38,598 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 11,111
- 2Georgia1 in 11,111
- 3North Carolina1 in 16,667
- 4Louisiana1 in 20,000
- 5South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 6Texas1 in 33,333
- 7Florida1 in 50,000
- 8Missouri1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Kanaan around the world
Where Kanaan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2007–2017#4,812in 2017
- France2024–2025#6,581in 2025
- Canada2022–2023#3,103in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kanaan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kanaan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kanaan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.