Kanan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kanan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kanan: Recorded every year since 2016, it reached #779 in 2022, and it stood at #1,466 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
10years from first to last
#779highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2016–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#4810
2017	#3040
2018	#1455
2019	#1253
2020	#1935
2021	#1984
2022	#1314
2023	#1407
2024	#1322
2025	#1466

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 2016 to 2025.

In 2024: #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1322 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2016–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2016
First recorded at #4810 among boys in England and Wales in 2016 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2022–2024
Highest recorded position: #779 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2022 (recorded 2022–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1466 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Kanan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 10 years beginning in 2016, and has registered 144 births with the name.

Kanan across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kanan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#4810 (2016)	#1253 (2019)	#1466 (2025)	10 of 10	144 (2016–2025)	20 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#779 (2022)	#779 (2022)	#785 (2024)	2 of 3	6 (2022–2024)	3 (2022)

Kanan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2016 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #779 in Republic of Ireland in 2022.

Kanan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#1466	18	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1322	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1407	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1314	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1984	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1253	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1455	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2016 and 2025, ranked in 10 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #779, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 6 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kamsi · #3848, 10y
Kamsiyochukwu · #790, 19y
Kanav · #3256, 12y
Kane · #57, 45y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Isaia · #779, 12y
Nilan · #779, 10y
Abner · #785, 13y
Ahan · #785, 15y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Isaia · #779, 12y
Nilan · #779, 10y
Isla-Rae · #778, 15y
Willow-Grace · #778, 15y

Kanan was ranked #779 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2022. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

A J#779
Aariz#779
Aarush#779
Aaryan#779

Kanan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kanan without appearing here.

Kanan moved ahead of

Garry
In 2017 they stood at #4810 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1455 and #4749.
Jade
In 2017 they stood at #4810 and #4023 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1455 and #4749.
Arne
In 2018 they stood at #4810 and #4023 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1253 and #3937.
Courtney
In 2017 they stood at #4810 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1455 and #3959.

Moved the opposite way to Kanan

Aaron
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Kanan went from #4810 to #1466 while Aaron went from #95 to #180.
Alan
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Kanan went from #4810 to #1466 while Alan went from #181 to #539.
Alex
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Kanan went from #4810 to #1466 while Alex went from #84 to #207.
Alexander
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Kanan went from #4810 to #1466 while Alexander went from #21 to #40.

Moved the same way as Kanan

Albie
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Kanan went from #4810 to #1466 and Albie from #88 to #21.
Arlo
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Kanan went from #4810 to #1466 and Arlo from #49 to #15.
Arthur
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Kanan went from #4810 to #1466 and Arthur from #30 to #5.
Beau
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Kanan went from #4810 to #1466 and Beau from #185 to #108.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2016 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #779 in Republic of Ireland in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kanan

Kanan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kanan across 2 official records

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Kanan at a glance

Kanan across 2 official records

Kanan appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

Names published alongside Kanan

Kanan and the names beside it

Kanan moved ahead of

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