Canyon
Canyon was given to 106 boys in 2025, #1,604 among boys’ names; 4,086 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,030 Americans named Canyon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Canyon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Canyon?
#1,604 among boys’ names, 2025
Canyon fell from #1,464 in 2015 to #1,604 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 60.0 to 62.1 per million.
184 babies in 2021, the peak
Canyon peaked in 2021, when 184 babies were given it (167 boys, #1,179 among boys’ names). The 115 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 63% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 106 | #1,604 | 62.1 |
| 2024 | 128 | #1,427 | 74.3 |
| 2023 | 133 | #1,390 | 77.8 |
| 2022 | 152 | #1,269 | 87.1 |
| 2021 | 167 | #1,179 | 95.5 |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,473 | 67.2 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,497 | 63.5 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,459 | 65.5 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,468 | 62.1 |
| 2016 | 133 | #1,342 | 70.1 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 115 | #1,464 | 60.0 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,515 | 55.2 |
| 2013 | 107 | #1,512 | 56.6 |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,461 | 59.0 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,546 | 53.7 |
| 2010 | 107 | #1,518 | 55.8 |
| 2009 | 125 | #1,370 | 63.0 |
| 2008 | 119 | #1,414 | 58.3 |
| 2007 | 144 | #1,226 | 69.4 |
| 2006 | 157 | #1,113 | 76.4 |
| 2005 | 145 | #1,127 | 72.6 |
| 2004 | 155 | #1,045 | 78.1 |
| 2003 | 158 | #1,001 | 80.0 |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,314 | 52.0 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,334 | 49.9 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,287 | 50.9 |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,326 | 46.9 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,320 | 47.1 |
| 1997 | 88 | #1,294 | 46.7 |
| 1996 | 63 | #1,573 | 33.3 |
| 1995 | 62 | #1,523 | 32.6 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,893 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,710 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,621 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,258 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,440 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,465 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,431 | 2.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,444 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,177 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,497 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,400 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,379 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,458 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,004 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,575 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,237 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,572 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,023 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Canyon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,086 Americans recorded as Canyon, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls and 106 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Canyon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Canyon, and how old are they?
4,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,086 Americans ever recorded as Canyon. The median Canyon alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,002 people named Canyon (214 women and girls, 2,788 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,205 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 40 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 276 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,750 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Canyon born?
The states with the most babies named Canyon are Texas, Utah and California, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,494 | 1.2× |
| Utah | 8 | #520 | 6.2× |
| California | 8 | #1,855 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,374 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 5 | #941 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,022 | 0.8× |
Where Canyon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Canyon is most over-represented in Utah: since 1972 it was given 6.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Canyon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 33,952 babies since 1880, Canyon is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 115 of their 1,122 babies (10%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Canyon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Canyon and names like it
- Compare Canyon and CannonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCanyon peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Canyon since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Canyon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Canyon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.