Channing
#3,130 for girls in 2025, 51 births · #1,771 for boys in 2025, 91 births
Given to boys 64.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 512 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,296since 1912
Channing over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,130 | 51 | #1,771 | 91 |
| 2024 | #2,857 | 58 | #1,701 | 98 |
| 2023 | #2,614 | 67 | #1,727 | 96 |
| 2022 | #2,142 | 89 | #1,566 | 113 |
| 2021 | #2,366 | 76 | #1,546 | 113 |
| 2020 | #1,883 | 102 | #1,353 | 131 |
| 2019 | #1,971 | 98 | #1,177 | 164 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 77 | #1,036 | 196 |
| 2017 | #2,221 | 85 | #917 | 232 |
| 2016 | #2,033 | 97 | #832 | 273 |
| 2015 | #1,758 | 119 | #781 | 300 |
| 2014 | #1,692 | 124 | #692 | 361 |
| 2013 | #1,599 | 134 | #557 | 471 |
| 2012 | #1,364 | 171 | #515 | 512 |
| 2011 | #1,497 | 149 | #671 | 352 |
| 2010 | #1,190 | 204 | #645 | 373 |
| 2009 | #2,029 | 101 | #1,118 | 165 |
| 2008 | #2,538 | 74 | #1,334 | 129 |
| 2007 | #2,433 | 77 | #1,457 | 110 |
| 2006 | #2,459 | 75 | #2,221 | 57 |
| 2005 | #2,345 | 76 | #2,129 | 57 |
| 2004 | #2,998 | 52 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | #2,956 | 51 | #2,312 | 46 |
| 2002 | #2,709 | 56 | #2,155 | 49 |
| 2001 | #2,600 | 58 | #1,743 | 65 |
| 2000 | #2,374 | 65 | #2,049 | 49 |
| 1999 | #2,307 | 64 | #1,995 | 48 |
| 1998 | #2,429 | 57 | #1,700 | 60 |
| 1997 | #2,283 | 59 | #1,790 | 53 |
| 1996 | #2,314 | 57 | #1,705 | 55 |
| 1995 | #1,939 | 71 | #1,801 | 48 |
| 1994 | #1,624 | 93 | #1,275 | 84 |
| 1993 | #1,942 | 72 | #1,216 | 86 |
| 1992 | #1,643 | 92 | #887 | 142 |
| 1991 | #1,877 | 75 | #981 | 119 |
| 1990 | #2,053 | 65 | #949 | 119 |
| 1989 | #1,686 | 81 | #967 | 111 |
| 1988 | #1,210 | 124 | #943 | 104 |
| 1987 | #590 | 330 | #884 | 112 |
| 1986 | #1,638 | 72 | #867 | 110 |
| 1985 | #2,657 | 36 | #798 | 124 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 | #1,134 | 64 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | #1,822 | 30 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | #1,654 | 36 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 | #2,204 | 23 |
| 1980 | #3,506 | 23 | #1,569 | 38 |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 | #1,487 | 40 |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 | #1,570 | 36 |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 | #1,670 | 32 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 | #1,502 | 36 |
| 1975 | #4,593 | 13 | #1,407 | 39 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #1,229 | 46 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | #1,354 | 38 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | #1,177 | 48 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #1,109 | 54 |
| 1970 | — | #1,222 | 46 | |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 | #1,152 | 46 |
| 1968 | — | #1,339 | 33 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,411 | 29 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,510 | 26 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,366 | 12 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,435 | 30 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,044 | 16 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,035 | 16 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,948 | 18 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,871 | 9 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,530 | 11 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,506 | 11 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,024 | 8 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,168 | 14 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,743 | 9 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,099 | 14 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,153 | 13 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,580 | 9 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,356 | 11 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,949 | 14 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,574 | 8 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #2,074 | 13 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,712 | 8 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,656 | 8 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #2,868 | 7 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,093 | 12 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,995 | 14 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,101 | 13 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,293 | 12 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,766 | 9 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,270 | 13 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,298 | 13 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,186 | 14 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,193 | 14 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,229 | 14 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,331 | 13 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,152 | 15 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,131 | 15 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,511 | 11 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,699 | 10 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,184 | 12 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Channing! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1914, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Channing
- 70 spots since 2024 (#1,701 → #1,771)
- 418 spots since 2020 (#1,353 → #1,771)
- 990 spots since 2015 (#781 → #1,771)
- Biggest jump: 473 spots in 2010 (#1,118 → #645)
- Biggest drop: 329 spots in 1993 (#887 → #1,216)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2012 at #515 (512 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1985–1992
- Highest: 1 in 3,705 boys born in 2012 were named Channing (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,770 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 44.3% of all boys named Channing (3,234) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2006, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 51 | #2,184 (1915) | #2,779 |
| 1920s | 127 | #2,131 (1920) | #2,409 |
| 1930s | 79 | #1,995 (1932) | #2,572 |
| 1940s | 76 | #1,949 (1946) | #2,549 |
| 1950s | 104 | #2,099 (1953) | #2,583 |
| 1960s | 235 | #1,152 (1969) | #1,811 |
| 1970s | 415 | #1,109 (1971) | #1,373 |
| 1980s | 752 | #798 (1985) | #1,284 |
| 1990s | 814 | #887 (1992) | #1,430 |
| 2000s | 767 | #1,118 (2009) | #1,916 |
| 2010s | 3,234 | #515 (2012) | #782 |
| 2020s | 642 | #1,353 (2020) | #1,611 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Channing in 1968
Top boys' names in 1968
More about 1968
boys
1,737,974 boys got a published name in 1968; 1 in 52,666 of them was named Channing, which outranked 71.8% of the 4,746 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,314Reynold34
- #1,314Samual34
- #1,314Trace34
- #1,339Channing33
- #1,339Abe33
- #1,339Alphonse33
- #1,339Cardell33
- #1,366Arlie32
- #1,366Brion32
- #1,366Dayton32
Tied with 26 names at #1,339; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.