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Canaan
Pronounced /ˈkeɪnən/
Rank in 2024
#1,090
Born in 2024
199
Peak year
2016 · #668
Origin
Hebrew
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 199 boys were named Canaan, about 1 in every 8,620.
- It peaked in 2016 with 385 babies, ranked #668.
- It first shows up in the records in 1973.
- 5,629 boys have been named Canaan since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Canaan per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- 0Silent1928–45
- 0Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 97 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 580 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,008 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,944 babies, 0.14 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Taken (at least as early as Wycliffe's Bible, 1382-1395, which has Chanaan) from Ecclesiastical Latin Chanaān, from Ancient Greek Χαναάν (Khanaán), expanded from Χνᾶ (Khnâ), from Biblical Hebrew כְּנַעַן (kanáʕan). The first vowel shifted from /aː/ to /eɪ/ in the Great Vowel Shift; at least as early as Milton (1660s), the word could already be pronounced with two syllables, though at least as late as the 1880s it could also be pronounced with three, /ˈkeɪ.nə.æn/.
- (rare) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈkeɪnən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0.