girls:
113 births since 1994
#5603 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1991
#3310 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1991
#6326 (18th percentile)
The name Kanyon is the #6,326 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,418 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 18.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,310 (27.8% percentile) for all time with 1,305 births since 1991. For girls, it ranks #5,603 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 113 births since 1994.
Kanyon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for boys and 1994 for girls).
The name Kanyon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kanyon reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 6.9% percentile (ranked #822) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 32 births per million (ranked 5.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kanyon is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #857 (5.9% percentile) with 32 births per million.
For girls, Kanyon reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #979) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kanyon".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kanyon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kanyon is pronounced as KA-nyuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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