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 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 89,182 of them was named Channing, which outranked 66.2% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,903Yocheved19
- #3,903Zenia19
- #3,903Zuleika19
- #4,052Channing18
- #4,052Anetra18
- #4,052Angelea18
- #4,052Angi18
- #4,231Abigale17
- #4,231Aishah17
- #4,231Akeisha17
Tied with 178 names at #4,052; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 43,038 of them was named Channing, which outranked 79.0% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,464Rachel41
- #1,464Rashaad41
- #1,464Seamus41
- #1,487Channing40
- #1,487Anand40
- #1,487Aram40
- #1,487Ashanti40
- #1,510Ajay39
- #1,510Antuan39
- #1,510Buford39
Tied with 22 names at #1,487; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.