Chana
Where Chana comes from
Chana hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1888Chana Orloff bornUkrainian-born French and Israeli sculptor
- 1944First appearance#3,687 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1978Chana Masson bornBrazilian handball player
- 2024Peak, #670432 babies named Chana — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Chana Orloff · Ukrainian-born French and Israeli sculptor, 1888–1968
- Chana Masson · Brazilian handball player, born 1978
- Chana Katan · American-born Israeli physician and author, born 1958
- Chana Gitla Kowalska · Polish painter, 1899–1942
- Chana Porpaoin · Thai boxer, born 1966
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.