Meaning not yet researched.
Chana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 413 in 2025. Its best rank was #670 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #670 in 2024; #686 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#686 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #670.
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Chana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 413 girls in 2025. Peak: #670 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 432 (2024).
In 2025, 413 US girls were named Chana, making it the 686th most common girls’ name of the year, down 16 places from #670 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 432 girls named Chana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #670, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 432. For comparison, it was #848 in 2015 and #1,916 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chana in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 7 babies. In all, 13,921 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,398 babies named Chana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,701 US girls were named Chana; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 432. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,892 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chana ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #55 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Hana (13,018 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hani, Channa and Chanae are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hani (946), Channa (878), Chanae (406), Channah (266), Chauna (248), Chanah (195), Chayna (192), Chanay (61), Chanaya (54), Khaina (18), Chanai (10), Chaena (6), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Chana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 123 | #55 | #90 |
| New York | 222 | #57 | #95 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #410 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #749 | #652 |
| Illinois | 9 | #946 | #930 |
| Ohio | 9 | #972 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,134 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,253 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,736 | #1,196 |
| California | 6 | #2,843 | #2,783 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 413 | #686 | — | — |
| 2024 | 432 | #670 | — | — |
| 2023 | 394 | #715 | — | — |
| 2022 | 347 | #808 | — | — |
| 2021 | 352 | #801 | — | — |
| 2020 | 347 | #783 | — | — |
| 2019 | 354 | #784 | — | — |
| 2018 | 370 | #747 | — | — |
| 2017 | 319 | #857 | — | — |
| 2016 | 373 | #765 | — | — |
| 2015 | 331 | #848 | — | — |
| 2014 | 319 | #862 | — | — |
| 2013 | 351 | #775 | — | — |
| 2012 | 330 | #811 | — | — |
| 2011 | 314 | #841 | — | — |
| 2010 | 337 | #811 | — | — |
| 2009 | 347 | #814 | — | — |
| 2008 | 289 | #940 | — | — |
| 2007 | 258 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 2006 | 280 | #935 | — | — |
| 2005 | 259 | #953 | — | — |
| 2004 | 261 | #924 | — | — |
| 2003 | 218 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 2002 | 231 | #961 | — | — |
| 2001 | 227 | #960 | — | — |
| 2000 | 209 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1999 | 209 | #987 | — | — |
| 1998 | 196 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1997 | 212 | #940 | — | — |
| 1996 | 164 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1995 | 173 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1994 | 174 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1993 | 168 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1992 | 170 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1991 | 151 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1990 | 173 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1989 | 194 | #926 | — | — |
| 1988 | 163 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1987 | 194 | #877 | — | — |
| 1986 | 182 | #896 | — | — |
| 1985 | 185 | #866 | — | — |
| 1984 | 191 | #821 | — | — |
| 1983 | 160 | #930 | — | — |
| 1982 | 185 | #842 | — | — |
| 1981 | 189 | #831 | — | — |
| 1980 | 165 | #913 | — | — |
| 1979 | 136 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1978 | 170 | #865 | — | — |
| 1977 | 148 | #937 | — | — |
| 1976 | 170 | #818 | — | — |
| 1975 | 107 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1974 | 113 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1973 | 101 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1972 | 91 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1971 | 80 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1970 | 77 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1969 | 73 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1968 | 63 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1967 | 53 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,830 | — | — |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1963 | 55 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1962 | 63 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1961 | 71 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1960 | 90 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,167 | — | — |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,201 | — | — |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,991 | — | — |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,414 | — | — |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,385 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,414 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,055 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,095 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,740 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).