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The first name 
Channah

Channah is a female first name.

Channah – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Channah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Channah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Channah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Channah ranks at #9,705. That means there are 9,704 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Channah

Channah has 7 letters 
and begins with a C

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 seven letters, the name Channah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Channah

If your name is Channah 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...

This is how you spell the name Channah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Channah, you can simply say:

Cat

Hat

Apple

Nut

Nut

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Channah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Channah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Channah

Channah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Channah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Channah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
H
A
N
N
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Channah

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
N
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

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. Channah sounds like this: