Chania
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chania has been given to 360 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 1999, with 38 recorded.
Babies named Chania, 2019
1 in 579,000
Chania 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Chania?
Chania had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 579,000
- 6 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 280,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 401,129 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chania sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chania. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chanias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chania was born before 2001 — so the typical Chania is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 53.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 360
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 53.6% of all recorded uses (193).
Is Chania 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1999 (38)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 68.7% average annual change
Spellings of Chania
Chania is not the most common spelling — Hanna is, with 10.4% against Chania's 0.09%.
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 Chania is used
Across 1910–2025, Chania was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,378,435 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in —
- 2New Jersey1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Ohio1 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. Chania has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Chania around the world
Where Chania 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 & Wales1996–2009#5,556in 2009
- France2003–2018#7,595in 2018
- South Australia1996–1996#712in 1996
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chania by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chania
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chania
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.