girls:
5 births since 1980
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
60 births since 1995
#4526 (1st percentile)
overall:
65 births since 1980
#7674 (1st percentile)
The name Canan is the #7,674 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 65 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 0.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,526 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 60 births since 1995. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1980.
Canan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (1980 for girls and 1995 for boys). Birth data for Canan is available in 9 out of the 44 years between 1980 and 2023 (8 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Canan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.3% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1995, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1980 to 1994), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1995 to 2023).
For boys, Canan reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #903) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Canan ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 42.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Canan reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #785) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Canan".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Kanan. View all variations of Kanan.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Canan", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 25 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Kanan" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Kanan..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Canan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.6% confident that Canan is pronounced as KAY-nuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KA-nuhn, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Canan? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Canan. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Canan, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K EY1 N AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker