Chauna
Chauna was last recorded in 1993, when 10 babies were given it; 248 Americans have been recorded with it between 1959 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chauna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chauna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,170, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1977, the peak
Chauna peaked in 1977, when 17 girls were given it, #4,084 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 10 | #8,170 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,640 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,668 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,211 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,052 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,684 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,493 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,593 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,714 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,991 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 10 | #6,406 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,376 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,810 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,051 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,084 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,391 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,629 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,837 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,646 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,418 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,145 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,534 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,536 | 4.2 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,589 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,506 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,385 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chauna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chauna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chauna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chauna, and how old are they?
An estimated 234 Americans named Chauna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 42 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 255 people named Chauna (251 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 238 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 18,152 babies since 1880, Chauna is the eighth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 512 babies recorded by SSA was a Chauna (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 Chauna
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 Chauna and names like it
- Compare Chauna and ChanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChauna peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Chauna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Chauna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.