Chana
Chana was given to 413 girls in 2025, #686 among girls’ names; 13,921 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,600 Americans named Chana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chana mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Chana is “a diminutive of the female given names Roxana, Susana, and Fabriciana”
/ˈt͡ʃana/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chana?
#686 among girls’ names, 2025
Chana rose from #848 in 2015 to #686 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.19 to 0.26 per 1,000.
432 babies in 2024, the peak
Chana peaked in 2024, when 432 girls were given it, #670 among girls’ names. The 413 births of 2025 are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 413 | #686 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 432 | #670 | 0.27 |
| 2023 | 394 | #715 | 0.25 |
| 2022 | 347 | #808 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 352 | #801 | 0.21 |
| 2020 | 347 | #783 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 354 | #784 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 370 | #747 | 0.22 |
| 2017 | 319 | #857 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 373 | #765 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 331 | #848 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 319 | #862 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 351 | #775 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 330 | #811 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 314 | #841 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 337 | #811 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 347 | #814 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 289 | #940 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 258 | #1,024 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 280 | #935 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 259 | #953 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 261 | #924 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 218 | #1,048 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 231 | #960 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 227 | #959 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 209 | #1,009 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 209 | #985 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 196 | #1,015 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 212 | #939 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 164 | #1,106 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 173 | #1,039 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 174 | #1,046 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 168 | #1,079 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 170 | #1,066 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 151 | #1,157 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 173 | #1,034 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 194 | #923 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 163 | #1,003 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 194 | #877 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 182 | #896 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 185 | #866 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 191 | #821 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 160 | #930 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 185 | #842 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 189 | #831 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 165 | #913 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 136 | #1,032 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 170 | #865 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 148 | #937 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 170 | #818 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 107 | #1,094 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 113 | #1,049 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 101 | #1,110 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 91 | #1,182 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 80 | #1,338 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 77 | #1,355 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 73 | #1,327 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 63 | #1,420 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 53 | #1,538 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,830 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,448 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,636 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 55 | #1,510 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 63 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 71 | #1,319 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 90 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,796 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,587 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,166 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,200 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,740 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,525 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,990 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,941 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,488 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,915 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,413 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,383 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,053 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,093 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,738 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chana, and how old are they?
13,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 13,921 Americans ever recorded as Chana. The median Chana alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 9,939 people named Chana (9,866 women and girls, 73 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,464 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 466 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,540 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,670 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Chana born?
The states with the most babies named Chana are New York, New Jersey and Illinois, with 88% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 222 | #57 | 8.9× |
| New Jersey | 123 | #55 | 6.0× |
| Illinois | 9 | #946 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 9 | #972 | 0.1× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,736 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,134 | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 7 | #410 | 0.0× |
| California | 6 | #2,843 | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 6 | #749 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,253 | 0.1× |
Where Chana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chana is most over-represented in New York: since 1944 it was given 8.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,689 babies since 1880, Chana is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 413 of their 540 babies (76%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chana and names like it
- Compare Chana and ChaneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sChana peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chana since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Chana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Chana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Chana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.