Canyon
Canyon reached its high-water mark in 2021 at number 1,179, and has been recorded 4,086 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,602nd. About 4,000 Canyons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Canyon boys named Canyon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,086
- Estimated living today
- 4,000
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 1,179th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,602nd
- First recorded
- 1972
- Girls / boys
- 259 / 3,827
How old the living Canyons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,086 babies given the name since 1972, about 4,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Canyon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Canyon is most concentrated in Utah (22.7×), Arizona (4.0×), Idaho (3.9×), Texas (3.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Canyon peaked:
Related names
Canyon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.