The name Chana is a modern spelling of the traditional Hebrew name Channah, from which the name Hannah was created. It means ‘favor’ or ‘grace’.
Chana is a female first name.
The name Chana isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Chana ranks 727. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Chana. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Chana.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Chana is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Chana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Chana, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Apple
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Chana
Chana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
H
A
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
H
A
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Chana sounds like this:
