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Chanan

#12,378 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Hanan

Chanan has been given to 97 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #12,378 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Chanan, 2025

1 in 663,000

Chanan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chanan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hanan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chanan means

Chanan is a form of Hanan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chanan is used in Biblical Hebrew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Chanan is a form of Hanan. Hanan has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hanan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 97 boys were recorded with the name Chanan between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2014; its best national rank was #5,223 in 1977.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,880 in 2015 to #12,378 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Chanan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,378
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chanan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chanan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chanans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chanan was born before 2014 — so the typical Chanan is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
62.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
97
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Choose a decade

2010s — 62.9% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Chanan 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,498
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.5%
Peak was 2014 (13)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,223
1977

Spellings of Chanan

Chanan is not the most common spelling — Chance is, with 56.4% against Chanan's 0.10%.

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.

Chanan around the world

Where Chanan 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 & Wales
    2011–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Chanan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,378
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,223
1977
Peak year
2014
13 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
97
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Chanan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Chanan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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