boys:
1.1k births since 1990
#3521 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1990
#6662 (14th percentile)
The name Kanaan is the #6,662 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,077 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 13.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,521 (23.2% percentile) for all time with 1,077 births since 1990.
Kanaan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (first recorded for boys in 1990). Birth data for Kanaan is available in 33 out of the 34 years between 1990 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Kanaan reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 8.9% percentile (ranked #832) with 44 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 45 births per million (ranked 8.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kanaan ranks #856 for boys (6.0% percentile) with 33 births per million, which is 72.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kanaan".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Kanaan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Kanaan is pronounced as kuh-NAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-nuhn, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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