Kanyon
Kanyon was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,995 among boys’ names; 1,475 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Kanyon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kanyon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kanyon?
#3,995 among boys’ names, 2025
Kanyon fell from #3,187 in 2015 to #3,995 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 15.8 per million.
73 babies in 2007, the peak
Kanyon peaked in 2007, when 73 babies were given it (66 boys, #2,080 among boys’ names). The 27 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,995 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,846 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,350 | 34.5 |
| 2022 | 52 | #2,601 | 29.8 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,151 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,167 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,392 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 46 | #2,688 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,159 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,743 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,187 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,309 | 29.7 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,298 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,740 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,721 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,937 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,309 | 28.7 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,488 | 25.0 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,080 | 31.8 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,116 | 30.2 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,020 | 31.0 |
| 2004 | 63 | #1,939 | 31.7 |
| 2003 | 61 | #1,918 | 30.9 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,527 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,782 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,068 | 24.9 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,491 | 18.7 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,252 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,208 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,868 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,398 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,412 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,526 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,946 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,903 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kanyon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,475 Americans recorded as Kanyon, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 27 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kanyon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kanyon, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,475 Americans ever recorded as Kanyon. The median Kanyon alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,108 people named Kanyon (120 women and girls, 988 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 79 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 812 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 564 |
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 Kanyon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,769 | 0.8× |
Where Kanyon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kanyon is most over-represented in Utah: since 1991 it was given 7.8 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 Kanyon 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 30,442 babies since 1880, Kanyon is the seventh most given (4.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 1,137 babies (2.4%), the eighth most given that year.
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 Kanyon
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 Kanyon and names like it
- Compare Kanyon and CannonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKanyon peaked in 2007.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kanyon since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kanyon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kanyon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.