Meaning not yet researched.
Channing: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 91 in 2025. Its best rank was #515 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #515 in 2012; #1,772 in 2025. About 64% of babies named Channing in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,772 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #515.
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Channing: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 91 boys in 2025. Peak: #515 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 512 (2012).
In 2025, 91 US boys were named Channing, making it the 1,772nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 70 places from #1,702 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 98 boys named Channing in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #515, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 512. For comparison, it was #781 in 2015 and #2,606 in 1950.
In 2025, 51 US girls were named Channing, making it the 3,136th most common girls’ name of the year, down 275 places from #2,861 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 58 girls named Channing in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #591, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 330. For comparison, it was #1,759 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Channing in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 11,238 US babies have been given the name, 35% of them girls and 65% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,492 babies named Channing.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,507 US boys were named Channing; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 273. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,770 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Channing ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #539 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Chaning are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chaning (27).
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 Channing in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 5 | #539 | #202 |
| Alabama | 7 | #631 | #455 |
| Georgia | 10 | #862 | #520 |
| New York | 6 | #1,607 | #1,081 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,889 | #749 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,332 | #1,377 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,136 | 91 | #1,772 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,861 | 98 | #1,702 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,625 | 96 | #1,728 |
| 2022 | 89 | #2,144 | 113 | #1,567 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,368 | 113 | #1,547 |
| 2020 | 102 | #1,886 | 131 | #1,355 |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,976 | 164 | #1,178 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,364 | 196 | #1,037 |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,227 | 232 | #917 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,037 | 273 | #832 |
| 2015 | 119 | #1,759 | 300 | #781 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,696 | 361 | #692 |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,605 | 471 | #557 |
| 2012 | 171 | #1,366 | 512 | #515 |
| 2011 | 149 | #1,499 | 352 | #672 |
| 2010 | 204 | #1,191 | 373 | #645 |
| 2009 | 101 | #2,035 | 165 | #1,119 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,543 | 129 | #1,337 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,437 | 110 | #1,458 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,463 | 57 | #2,226 |
| 2005 | 76 | #2,349 | 57 | #2,134 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,008 | 40 | #2,649 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,961 | 46 | #2,316 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,718 | 49 | #2,159 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,604 | 65 | #1,748 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,378 | 49 | #2,054 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,316 | 48 | #1,999 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,433 | 60 | #1,704 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,288 | 53 | #1,796 |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,320 | 55 | #1,710 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,940 | 48 | #1,806 |
| 1994 | 93 | #1,626 | 84 | #1,276 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,951 | 86 | #1,218 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,645 | 142 | #888 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,877 | 119 | #983 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,054 | 119 | #951 |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,688 | 111 | #967 |
| 1988 | 124 | #1,212 | 104 | #945 |
| 1987 | 330 | #591 | 112 | #884 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,639 | 110 | #867 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,663 | 124 | #799 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,511 | 64 | #1,134 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,835 | 30 | #1,829 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,591 | 36 | #1,657 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,768 | 23 | #2,212 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,524 | 38 | #1,571 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,068 | 40 | #1,490 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,523 | 36 | #1,573 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,462 | 32 | #1,675 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,661 | 36 | #1,508 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,627 | 39 | #1,413 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,003 | 46 | #1,230 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,165 | 38 | #1,358 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,824 | 48 | #1,180 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,511 | 54 | #1,110 |
| 1970 | — | — | 46 | #1,224 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,756 | 46 | #1,153 |
| 1968 | — | — | 33 | #1,342 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,414 |
| 1966 | — | — | 26 | #1,514 |
| 1965 | — | — | 12 | #2,386 |
| 1964 | — | — | 30 | #1,438 |
| 1963 | — | — | 16 | #2,052 |
| 1962 | — | — | 16 | #2,050 |
| 1961 | — | — | 18 | #1,961 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,903 |
| 1959 | — | — | 11 | #2,555 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,530 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,055 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,177 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,006 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,771 |
| 1953 | — | — | 14 | #2,110 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,166 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,109 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,606 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,636 |
| 1947 | — | — | 11 | #2,385 |
| 1946 | — | — | 14 | #1,963 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,594 |
| 1943 | — | — | 13 | #2,090 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,744 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,692 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,533 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #2,911 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,205 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,412 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,757 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,115 |
| 1932 | — | — | 14 | #2,013 |
| 1931 | — | — | 13 | #2,118 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,321 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,803 |
| 1928 | — | — | 13 | #2,288 |
| 1927 | — | — | 13 | #2,314 |
| 1926 | — | — | 14 | #2,214 |
| 1925 | — | — | 14 | #2,210 |
| 1924 | — | — | 14 | #2,251 |
| 1923 | — | — | 13 | #2,353 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,584 |
| 1921 | — | — | 15 | #2,168 |
| 1920 | — | — | 15 | #2,152 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,532 |
| 1918 | — | — | 10 | #2,723 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,275 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,571 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,203 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,612 |
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).