Channing

Where Channing comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Channing.

  • From a surname
  • 2 syllables
Channing through the years
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,544 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Channing Tatum born
    American actor, dancer and model
  3. 1983
    Channing Frye born
    American basketball player
  4. 2007
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  5. 2012
    Peak, #515
    512 babies named Channing, the most in any year.
  6. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #917.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Channing Tatum · American actor, dancer and model, born 1980
  • Channing Frye · American basketball player, born 1983
  • Channing H. Cox · American politician, 1879–1968
  • Channing Pollock · American playwright and screenwriter, 1880–1946
  • Channing Pollock · American actor and magician, 1926–2006

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.