Name meaning & stats
Canaan
Canaan (Hebrew origin). 6,167 US babies since 1940, peak 2016.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Hebrew
In US birth records
Peak year: 2016
6,167 US babies were named Canaan between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Canaan (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 10 Kanes spell it Canaan
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2016)