Chanita
Chanita was last recorded in 1994, when 6 babies were given it; 404 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chanita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chanita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,055, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1981, the peak
Chanita peaked in 1981, when 26 girls were given it, #3,266 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #12,055 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,630 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,432 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,328 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,602 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,954 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,144 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,820 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,892 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,370 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 19 | #3,968 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,795 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,266 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,018 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,876 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,481 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,929 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,106 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,972 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,260 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,800 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,556 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,603 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,792 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,975 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,145 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,531 | 4.2 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,106 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,724 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,691 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chanita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chanita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chanita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chanita, and how old are they?
An estimated 384 Americans named Chanita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 40 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 396 people named Chanita (395 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 389 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,403 babies since 1880, Chanita is the fifth most given (5.5% 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 Chanita
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 Chanita and names like it
- Compare Chanita and ChanteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChanita peaked in 1981.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Chanita.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chanita alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.