Chanae
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chanae has been given to 406 babies in the U.S. since 1976. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 53 recorded.
Babies named Chanae, 2006
1 in 659,000
Chanae over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Chanae?
Chanae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 659,000
- 6 of 3,956,166 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 317,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 457,035 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chanae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chanae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chanaes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chanae was born before 1990 — so the typical Chanae is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 47.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 406
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (194).
Is Chanae rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1992 (53)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.5% average annual change
Spellings of Chanae
Chanae is not the most common spelling — Shana is, with 13.1% against Chanae's 0.18%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Chanae is used
Across 1910–2025, Chanae was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 770,405 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Maryland1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chanae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Chanae around the world
Where Chanae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2002–2015#5,730in 2015
- South Australia1989–2005#517in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chanae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chanae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chanae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.