# Channing (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/channing/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 494 |
| US rank (2010) | 43,651 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 624,991 people |
| Change since 2000 | -6.3% (527 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈt͡ʃænɪŋ/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Channing in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.2% |
| Two or more races | 2.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Channing in the United States.

## People named Channing

- Carol Channing, American actress (1921–2019)
- Stockard Channing, American actress (born 1944)
- William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian clergyman (1780–1842)
- Chad Channing, American musician
- Edward Channing, American historian (1856–1931)
- William Ellery Channing, American writer and poet (1818–1901)
- William Francis Channing, American activist, physician and inventor

## Similar surnames

Chewning, Chowning, Canning, Cunningham, Cummings, Cummins, Cumming, Commons, Cumings, Cunnington, Cuming.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.