How popular is the name Chana?

Chana ranks 1,185th among girls' names in US records, with 13,503 births since 1944. Over the past decade it accounts for 3,614.

Is Chana a unisex name?

No. Chana is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

2024, when 427 children were given the name. It has been in use for 81 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,185 of girl names

Pronounced CH AE1 N AH0 (ARPABET)

Chana is a girls' name, and first appears in 1944. It has been given to 13,503 children — the 1,185th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2024, when 427 children were given it.

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Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Chana?: Chana ranks 1,185th among girls' names in US records, with 13,503 births since 1944. Over the past decade it accounts for 3,614.
Is Chana a unisex name?: No. Chana is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Chana most popular?: 2024, when 427 children were given the name. It has been in use for 81 years and is still recorded as of 2024.