Channing — #1695 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Channing

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,205 babies named Channing between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Channing currently holds the #1695 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 512 babies received it in a single year. Channing is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,891 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Channing performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,234 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Channing shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 440 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Channing in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Channing 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 7,205 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.