girls:
242 births since 1996
#5474 (4th percentile)
boys:
3.6k births since 1972
#2073 (55th percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1972
#4439 (43rd percentile)
The name Canyon is the #4,439 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,831 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 42.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,073 (54.8% percentile) for all time with 3,589 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,474 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 242 births since 1996.
Canyon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Canyon is available in 47 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 24 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 Canyon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 89.7% of babies named Canyon were boys.
For boys, Canyon reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 18.6% percentile (ranked #672) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 89 births per million (ranked 17.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Canyon ranks #786 for boys (13.7% percentile) with 71 births per million, which is 79.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Canyon reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #947) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Canyon ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 90.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Canyon".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Canyon is pronounced as KA-nyuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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