Channing
Channing is given to both girls and boys: 51 girls and 91 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,136 among girls’ names and #1,772 among boys’, #2,797 among all names counting both); 11,238 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Channing every year since 2007.
An estimated 10,600 Americans named Channing and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Channing by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Channing mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Channing is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.”
/ˈt͡ʃænɪŋ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Channing?
#1,772 among boys’ names, 2025
Channing fell from #781 in 2015 to #1,772 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.16 to 0.05 per 1,000.
683 babies in 2012, the peak
Channing peaked in 2012, when 683 babies were given it (512 boys, #515 among boys’ names). The 142 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,136 | 91 | #1,772 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,861 | 98 | #1,702 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,625 | 96 | #1,728 |
| 2022 | 89 | #2,144 | 113 | #1,567 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,368 | 113 | #1,547 |
| 2020 | 102 | #1,886 | 131 | #1,355 |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,976 | 164 | #1,178 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,364 | 196 | #1,037 |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,227 | 232 | #917 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,037 | 273 | #832 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 119 | #1,759 | 300 | #781 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,696 | 361 | #692 |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,605 | 471 | #557 |
| 2012 | 171 | #1,366 | 512 | #515 |
| 2011 | 149 | #1,499 | 352 | #672 |
| 2010 | 204 | #1,191 | 373 | #645 |
| 2009 | 101 | #2,035 | 165 | #1,119 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,543 | 129 | #1,337 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,437 | 110 | #1,458 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,463 | 57 | #2,225 |
| 2005 | 76 | #2,346 | 57 | #2,130 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,004 | 40 | #2,645 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,958 | 46 | #2,312 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,715 | 49 | #2,155 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,600 | 65 | #1,744 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,374 | 49 | #2,050 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,313 | 48 | #1,996 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,430 | 60 | #1,701 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,285 | 53 | #1,793 |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,317 | 55 | #1,707 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,935 | 48 | #1,801 |
| 1994 | 93 | #1,621 | 84 | #1,272 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,946 | 86 | #1,213 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,641 | 142 | #885 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,871 | 119 | #977 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,049 | 119 | #947 |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,684 | 111 | #964 |
| 1988 | 124 | #1,211 | 104 | #944 |
| 1987 | 330 | #591 | 112 | #883 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,638 | 110 | #867 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,662 | 124 | #799 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,510 | 64 | #1,133 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,834 | 30 | #1,828 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,589 | 36 | #1,656 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,767 | 23 | #2,211 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,524 | 38 | #1,571 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,067 | 40 | #1,490 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,523 | 36 | #1,573 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,461 | 32 | #1,675 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,659 | 36 | #1,507 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,625 | 39 | #1,413 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,001 | 46 | #1,230 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,163 | 38 | #1,358 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,823 | 48 | #1,180 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,509 | 54 | #1,110 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 46 | #1,224 | |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,755 | 46 | #1,153 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 33 | #1,342 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 29 | #1,413 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 26 | #1,513 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 12 | #2,385 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 30 | #1,437 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 16 | #2,051 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 16 | #2,049 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 18 | #1,960 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 9 | #2,902 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 11 | #2,554 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 11 | #2,529 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 8 | #3,054 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 14 | #2,176 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #3,005 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 9 | #2,770 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 14 | #2,109 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 13 | #2,165 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 7 | #3,108 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 9 | #2,605 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 9 | #2,635 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 11 | #2,384 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 14 | #1,962 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 8 | #2,593 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 13 | #2,089 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 8 | #2,743 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 8 | #2,691 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,532 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 7 | #2,910 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 6 | #3,204 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 10 | #2,412 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,755 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 12 | #2,114 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 14 | #2,013 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 13 | #2,118 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 12 | #2,320 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 9 | #2,801 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 13 | #2,288 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 13 | #2,314 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 14 | #2,214 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 14 | #2,209 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 14 | #2,251 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 13 | #2,352 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,582 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 15 | #2,167 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 15 | #2,151 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 11 | #2,531 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 10 | #2,722 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 7 | #3,274 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 6 | #3,570 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 12 | #2,202 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,611 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Channing a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,238 Americans recorded as Channing, 35% are girls and 65% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Channing: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Channing, and how old are they?
10,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 11,238 Americans ever recorded as Channing. The median Channing alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 8,623 people named Channing (3,188 women and girls, 5,435 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,729 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 23 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 155 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 668 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,790 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Channing born?
The states with the most babies named Channing are Texas, Georgia and Alabama, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #2,332 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 10 | #862 | 1.2× |
| Alabama | 7 | #631 | 0.9× |
| New York | 6 | #1,607 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,889 | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 5 | #539 | 2.4× |
Where Channing is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Channing is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1912 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Channing with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Channing
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 Channing and names like it
- Compare Channing and CharlestonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sChanning peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Channing since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Channing: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Channing.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Channing alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.