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Channa

Girls' name

Form of Hannah

Channa has been given to 878 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 1984, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Channa, 2024

1 in 669,000

Channa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Channa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hannah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Channa means

Channa is a form of Hannah.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Channa is used in Biblical Hebrew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Channa is a form of Hannah. Hannah has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hannah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 873 girls were recorded with the name Channa between 1958 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1984; its best national rank was #2,520 in 1984.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Channa between 1986 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1986; its best national rank was #6,884 in 1986.

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 Channa?

Channa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Channa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Channa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Channas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Channa was born before 1984 — so the typical Channa is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
873
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (281).

Is Channa 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (37)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,520
1984

Spellings of Channa

Channa is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 36.6% against Channa's 0.03%.

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 Channa is used

Across 1910–2025, Channa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 971,777 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Channa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Channa around the world

Where Channa 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
    1998–1999
    #3,225
    in 1999
  • France
    1983–2020
    #7,627
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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.

Channa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,520
1984
Peak year
1984
37 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
873
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,884
1986
Peak year
1986
5 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Channa

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

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Sibling names for Channa

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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