girls:
13.1k births since 1944
#1364 (76th percentile)
overall:
13.1k births since 1944
#2300 (70th percentile)
The name Chana is the #2,300 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,076 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 70.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,364 (76.1% percentile) for all time with 13,076 births since 1944.
Chana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (first recorded for girls in 1944).
For girls, Chana reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 38.8% percentile (ranked #580) with 225 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 225 births per million (ranked 38.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Chana is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #580 (38.8% percentile) with 225 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chana".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Chana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.0% confident that Chana is pronounced as CHA-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HAH-nuh, at 21.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like CH AE1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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