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How popular is “Canaan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Canaan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Canaan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Canaan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Canaan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Canaan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Canaan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Canaan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 12 0.000003947 12 -100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 -100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 -100%
1977 19 0.000005981 19 -100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 -100%
1979 14 0.000004208 14 -100%
1980 20 0.000005806 5 15 -50%
1981 21 0.00000607 21 -100%
1982 16 0.000004561 16 -100%
1983 34 0.000009817 34 -100%
1984 25 0.000007166 25 -100%
1985 16 0.000004483 16 -100%
1986 15 0.000004217 15 -100%
1987 32 0.000008875 5 27 -69%
1988 27 0.000007307 5 22 -63%
1989 32 0.000008324 6 26 -63%
1990 52 0.000013156 52 -100%
1991 43 0.000011039 43 -100%
1992 54 0.000014058 10 44 -63%
1993 67 0.000017771 9 58 -73%
1994 62 0.000016677 8 54 -74%
1995 60 0.000016384 8 52 -73%
1996 82 0.000022483 7 75 -83%
1997 93 0.00002565 6 87 -87%
1998 104 0.000028275 13 91 -75%
1999 92 0.000024906 13 79 -72%
2000 102 0.000026985 9 93 -82%
2001 118 0.000031522 10 108 -83%
2002 108 0.00002889 9 99 -83%
2003 133 0.000034979 14 119 -79%
2004 126 0.000032976 8 118 -87%
2005 131 0.000034072 5 126 -92%
2006 170 0.000042971 9 161 -89%
2007 144 0.000036021 7 137 -90%
2008 161 0.00004096 11 150 -86%
2009 162 0.000042406 16 146 -80%
2010 182 0.000049246 19 163 -79%
2011 165 0.000045109 6 159 -93%
2012 186 0.000050856 14 172 -85%
2013 156 0.000042791 7 149 -91%
2014 192 0.000051803 12 180 -88%
2015 298 0.000080521 13 285 -91%
2016 385 0.000104942 385 -100%
2017 325 0.000090879 7 318 -96%
2018 286 0.000081345 16 270 -89%
2019 274 0.000078941 9 265 -93%
2020 231 0.00006915 231 -100%
2021 243 0.000071725 7 236 -94%
2022 241 0.000071236 5 236 -96%
2023 200 0.000060401 10 190 -90%
2024 199 0.000059787 199 -100%

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