Channing
Channing is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 98 births. Its best rank was 515th, in 2012.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 980.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2012512 births
- Best rank
- #515in 2012
- Since 1912
- 11,096people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,205 boys have been named Channing in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 512 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 45%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Channing is used for both sexes: 35% of its bearers are girls (3,891), most of them born around 1987.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Channing | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 51 | |
| 1920s | 127 | |
| 1930s | 79 | |
| 1940s | 76 | |
| 1950s | 104 | |
| 1960s | 235 | |
| 1970s | 415 | |
| 1980s | 752 | |
| 1990s | 814 | |
| 2000s | 767 | |
| 2010s | 3,234 | |
| 2020s | 551 |
In 2012, its biggest year
Channing was the 515th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Channing
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Graemepeak 2012
- Brentlypeak 2014
- Jeancarlospeak 2010
- Kellanpeak 2013
- Jasepeak 2013
- Zacpeak 2014
- Joellpeak 2011
- Brydenpeak 2013
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.