# Chana (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/chana/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,921 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 13,921 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 467, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 314 | 841 |
| 2012 | 330 | 811 |
| 2013 | 351 | 775 |
| 2014 | 319 | 862 |
| 2015 | 331 | 848 |
| 2016 | 373 | 765 |
| 2017 | 319 | 857 |
| 2018 | 370 | 747 |
| 2019 | 354 | 784 |
| 2020 | 347 | 783 |
| 2021 | 352 | 801 |
| 2022 | 347 | 808 |
| 2023 | 394 | 715 |
| 2024 | 432 | 670 |
| 2025 | 413 | 686 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | 1,665 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,991 |
| 2013 | 13 | 2,062 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,966 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,783 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,920 |
| 2017 | 19 | 1,628 |
| 2018 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2019 | 15 | 1,854 |
| 2020 | 21 | 1,449 |
| 2021 | 19 | 1,569 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,948 |
| 2023 | 25 | 1,288 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1,541 |
| 2025 | 13 | 2,138 |

## People named Chana

- Chana Masson, Brazilian handball player
- Chana Katan, American-born Israeli physician and author (b.1958)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.