Chaning — unisex name

What the Data Says About Chaning

The Social Security Administration has registered 14 babies named Chaning between 1986 and 1987, spanning 2 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chaning currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1987. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Chaning is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 13 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chaning performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 14 births during that ten-year window.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chaning 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 14 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.