Chanya
Chanya was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 187 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chanya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chanya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,084, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 2006, the peak
Chanya peaked in 2006, when 17 girls were given it, #7,217 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #17,084 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,422 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,550 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,922 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,990 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,623 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,122 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,217 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,586 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,380 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 10 | #9,817 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,507 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,287 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,240 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,812 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,101 | 6.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,124 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chanya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chanya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chanya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chanya, and how old are they?
An estimated 185 Americans named Chanya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 18 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 293 people named Chanya (287 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 185 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,470 babies since 1880, Chanya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 540 babies recorded by SSA was a Chanya (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Chanya
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 Chanya and names like it
- Compare Chanya and ChanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sChanya peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Chanya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chanya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.