Channon
Channon was last recorded in 2023, when 11 babies were given it; 1,141 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Channon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 32 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Channon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Channon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,785, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1971, the peak
Channon peaked in 1971, when 57 babies were given it (40 girls, #2,070 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | under 5 | 11 | #7,361 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 6 | #11,107 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 6 | #11,030 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #7,718 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,015 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 9 | #8,254 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #12,395 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 11 | #7,149 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 13 | #6,302 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #11,025 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | under 5 | 5 | #12,603 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #12,556 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 6 | #11,231 | |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,785 | 7 | #10,029 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,181 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,844 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,620 | 9 | #7,625 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,466 | 10 | #6,602 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,851 | 6 | #9,447 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,031 | 6 | #9,266 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,982 | 13 | #5,075 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,349 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,465 | 9 | #6,163 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,779 | 9 | #6,058 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,706 | 12 | #4,832 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,739 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,718 | 6 | #7,772 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,180 | 8 | #6,209 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,673 | 8 | #6,029 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,869 | 7 | #6,509 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,535 | 11 | #4,556 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,029 | 9 | #4,833 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,104 | 5 | #7,109 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,002 | 13 | #3,467 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,750 | 8 | #4,761 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,160 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,969 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,842 | 8 | #4,656 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,025 | 7 | #5,025 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,427 | 7 | #5,012 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,256 | 16 | #2,792 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,113 | 14 | #2,953 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,082 | 11 | #3,417 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,298 | 15 | #2,723 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,652 | 9 | #3,694 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,446 | 12 | #2,974 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,359 | 14 | #2,619 |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,988 | 10 | #3,190 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,070 | 17 | #2,293 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,085 | 9 | #3,312 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,031 | 8 | #3,354 |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,492 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,043 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,925 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,358 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,553 | under 5 |
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 Channon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,141 Americans recorded as Channon, 64% are girls and 36% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Channon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Channon, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,141 Americans ever recorded as Channon. The median Channon alive today is 43 years old; half are between 32 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 968 people named Channon (623 women and girls, 345 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,076 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 472 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 381 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 148 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 76 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,541 babies since 1880, Channon is the most given (74% 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 Channon
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 Channon and names like it
- Compare Channon and ChaninBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChannon peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Channon since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Channon.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Channon alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.