Chanah
Chanah was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 195 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chanah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chanah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,663, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1997, the peak
Chanah peaked in 1997, when 11 girls were given it, #7,858 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #15,663 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,792 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,782 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,172 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,367 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,755 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,988 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,223 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,627 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,094 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 11 | #9,377 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,660 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,330 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,849 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,921 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,746 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,858 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,261 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,052 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,719 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,850 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,650 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,511 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,249 | 4.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,607 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,508 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,279 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chanah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chanah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chanah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chanah, and how old are they?
An estimated 192 Americans named Chanah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 182 people named Chanah (178 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 183 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Chanah?
Chanah is a less common spelling of Chana: SSA has recorded 195 Chanah and 13,921 Chana since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,213 babies since 1880, Chanah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 540 babies recorded by SSA was a Chanah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Chanah
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 Chanah and names like it
- Compare Chanah and ChanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChanah peaked in 1997.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chanah since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Chanah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chanah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.