Kanyen — boys' name
28 babies named Kanyen in U.S. Social Security records since 2006, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
54% of everyone ever named Kanyen was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Kanyen in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kanyen
The Social Security Administration has registered 28 babies named Kanyen between 2006 and 2016, spanning 11 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kanyen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Kanyen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2004.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kanyen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 15 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kanyen shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kanyen 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 28 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.
Kanyen at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kanyen popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2006
- Peak year (2006)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 11 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
28 total births across 11 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 9 births in a single year.
Kanyen popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 2004 (Kanyen as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Kanyen accounts for 15% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kanyen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 15 births that decade — 54% of Kanyen's all-time total
Kanyen decade highlights
- Peak decade 15 births
- Runner-up 13 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Kanyen's strongest decade
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2006–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.