The biblical name of Noah’s son associated with the ancestor of Canaan is Ham.
Genesis names Noah’s three sons as Shem, Ham, and Japheth. In the genealogical material following the flood, Ham is presented as the father of Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. This makes Ham the answer when the question asks which of Noah’s sons is linked to Canaan in the biblical genealogy.
The text also contains the episode commonly called the curse of Ham, although Genesis 9:25 specifically pronounces a curse on Canaan. That distinction matters: the passage names Canaan as the one cursed, not Ham himself. Later interpreters sometimes blurred the two names, creating a persistent source of confusion.
These genealogies are part of Genesis’s post-flood account of peoples and territories. They should not be treated as modern population science; they are ancient biblical ancestry traditions with theological and literary purposes.