Chanin
Chanin was last recorded in 1995, when 7 babies were given it; 312 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chanin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chanin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,713, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 1970, the peak
Chanin peaked in 1970, when 72 girls were given it, #1,434 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 7 | #10,713 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,751 | 3.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,752 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,263 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,719 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,419 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,704 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,588 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,826 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,998 | 10.3 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 18 | #3,421 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,912 | 27.0 |
| 1970 | 72 | #1,434 | 41.2 |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,712 | 29.6 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,817 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,227 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,883 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chanin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 312 Americans recorded as Chanin, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chanin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chanin, and how old are they?
An estimated 288 Americans named Chanin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 53 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 416 people named Chanin (318 women and girls, 98 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 295 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,541 babies since 1880, Chanin is the second most given (20% of them).
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 Chanin
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 Chanin and names like it
- Compare Chanin and ChannonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChanin peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chanin since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Chanin.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Chanin alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.