Chanon
Chanon was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 88 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chanon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chanon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,592, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1976, the peak
Chanon peaked in 1976, when 12 babies were given it (7 girls, #7,395 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #9,845 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,592 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,295 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,415 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,395 | 5 | #5,732 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,283 | 6 | #4,888 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,322 | |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,637 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,411 | 5 | #5,092 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,705 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 8 | #5,887 | 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 Chanon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 88 Americans recorded as Chanon, 70% are girls and 30% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chanon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chanon, and how old are they?
An estimated 82 Americans named Chanon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 242 people named Chanon (110 women and girls, 132 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 83 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Chanon?
Chanon is a less common spelling of Channon: SSA has recorded 88 Chanon and 1,141 Channon since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,541 babies since 1880, Chanon is the third most given (5.7% 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 Chanon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1970-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Chaka | 1,103 |
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 Chanon and names like it
- Compare Chanon and ChannonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChanon peaked in 1976.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Chanon.
- Names starting with CMost given first.