Canyon — #1437 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Canyon

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,719 babies named Canyon between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Canyon currently holds the #1437 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 167 babies received it in a single year. Canyon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 250 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Canyon performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,301 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Canyon shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 482 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Canyon in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Canyon in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,719 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.