Chananya

#8,371 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Hananiah

Chananya has been given to 105 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #8,371 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Chananya, 2025

1 in 368,000

Chananya over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chananya: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hananiah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chananya means

Chananya is a form of Hananiah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Chananya → Hananiah. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”, recorded in the naming reference for Hananiah.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hananiah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 105 boys were recorded with the name Chananya between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,516 in 2006.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,392 in 2015 to #8,371 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Chananya?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 368,000; 9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 190,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #8,371; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 255,323 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Chananya 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chananya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chananyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chananya was born before 2010 — so the typical Chananya is around 15 today.

Median birth year: 2010; About 15 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 38.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 83.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 105; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Chananya 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: +4,021; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.80×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 90.0%; Peak was 2006 (10)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,516; 2006

Where Chananya is used

Across 1910–2025, Chananya was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 370,107 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Chananya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chananya by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #8,371
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #7,516; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 10 that year
First recorded: 1994
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 105
Count in 2025: 9

Names similar to Chananya

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

Chaitanya Charming Charvik Chanoch Chaseton Chayanne Chadwin Chandlor Chanan Chanston Chandlar Charlies Chasyn Chaske Chasten Charis Champion Chapel Charlis Charvez Chaunce Chappell Chaysen Chandara

Sibling names for Chananya

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

For a sister

Abagail Jazmyne Taniya Rhianna Sydnee Lesli Shakira Madisen

For a brother

Aaden Kale Keven Zakary Nathen Garret Samual Donavon

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