Canaan
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#1,044
up +38 places
2025 births
212
up +11 births
All-time births
5,843
4% of them in 2025
More common than
96%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2016
- 385 births
- Best rank
- #671
- in 2016
- First recorded
- 1973
- #4,573 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2011
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 53 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 2016385#671Peak
- 2017318#745
- 2015285#806
- 2018270#828
- 2019265#846
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #671 in 2016 · peak births 385 in 2016
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 95% boys■ 5% girls
5,843 boys · 324 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Canaan has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.