Kanaan — #2199 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kanaan

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,144 babies named Kanaan between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kanaan currently holds the #2199 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 87 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kanaan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 491 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kanaan shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 68 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Kanaan in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kanaan 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 1,144 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.