Chanah
Chanah is a name with a single cultural origin: Hebrew.
- Hebrew
Meaning & Origin of Chanah
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Chanah is a name with a single cultural origin: Hebrew.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hebrew
The Story of Chanah
Chanah first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1975, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1997: 11 births, good for #7,741 nationwide. About 37% of every Chanah on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Chanah last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 195 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Chanah
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About the name Chanah
Chanah is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1975 and has accumulated 195 births in the dataset. Chanah's peak popularity came in 1997 when it ranked #7,741. Use the chart and map above to compare Chanah's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.