# Channing (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/channing/  
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 | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈt͡ʃænɪŋ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,238 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,296 / 3,942 (35% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 67, 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 | 149 | 1,499 |
| 2012 | 171 | 1,366 |
| 2013 | 134 | 1,605 |
| 2014 | 124 | 1,696 |
| 2015 | 119 | 1,759 |
| 2016 | 97 | 2,037 |
| 2017 | 85 | 2,227 |
| 2018 | 77 | 2,364 |
| 2019 | 98 | 1,976 |
| 2020 | 102 | 1,886 |
| 2021 | 76 | 2,368 |
| 2022 | 89 | 2,144 |
| 2023 | 67 | 2,625 |
| 2024 | 58 | 2,861 |
| 2025 | 51 | 3,136 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 352 | 672 |
| 2012 | 512 | 515 |
| 2013 | 471 | 557 |
| 2014 | 361 | 692 |
| 2015 | 300 | 781 |
| 2016 | 273 | 832 |
| 2017 | 232 | 917 |
| 2018 | 196 | 1,037 |
| 2019 | 164 | 1,178 |
| 2020 | 131 | 1,355 |
| 2021 | 113 | 1,547 |
| 2022 | 113 | 1,567 |
| 2023 | 96 | 1,728 |
| 2024 | 98 | 1,702 |
| 2025 | 91 | 1,772 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,458 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,216 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |

## People named Channing

- Channing Tatum, American actor, dancer and model (born 1980)
- Channing Frye, American basketball player (born 1983)
- Channing Pollock, American actor and magician (1926-2006)
- Channing Pollock, American playwright and screenwriter (1880-1946)
- Channing H. Cox, American politician (1879–1968)
- Richard Garfield, American game designer

## 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.