Chana — #673 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Chana

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,503 babies named Chana between 1944 and 2024, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chana currently holds the #673 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 427 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chana performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,398 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Chana shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 7,990 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Chana in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 13,503 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.