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 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 138,295 of them was named Channing, which outranked 50.4% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,523Wynetta12
- #4,523Yoni12
- #4,523Zora12
- #4,793Channing11
- #4,793Adonica11
- #4,793Aixa11
- #4,793Alayna11
- #5,109Adeana10
- #5,109Agustina10
- #5,109Aidee10
Tied with 315 names at #4,793; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 33,784 of them was named Channing, which outranked 79.5% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,163Renard49
- #1,163Sal49
- #1,163Vern49
- #1,177Channing48
- #1,177Berry48
- #1,177Brody48
- #1,177Brooke48
- #1,196Asa47
- #1,196Coleman47
- #1,196Curtiss47
Tied with 18 names at #1,177; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.