Girls' name · since 2020
Kanary
Since 2020, U.S. Social Security records show 25 babies named Kanary, peaking in 2025. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #43,180 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,845 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 25
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Kanary currently ranks #10845 among girls' names in America, with 25 babies recorded since 2020.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kanary has been recorded 25 times among girls since 2020, currently ranked #10845 nationally and more common than 37% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2020 to 2025.
- #43,180 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,845 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 25 born since 2020
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kanary ranks #43,180 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,845 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 25 born since 2020, peaking in the 2020s.
- #43,180 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,845 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 25
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Kanary's 25 recorded births place it above 39.95% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Kanary compares
25 9th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Kanary's all-time total is 93% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Kanary | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 25 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Kanary's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kanary's SSA record in two at 2024 and the more recent half accounts for 56% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 44%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2020, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kanary popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Kanary by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (25 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Kanary's strongest decade.
25 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Kanary births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
25 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 25 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Kanary: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2020–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kanary draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.