Family name Ченнинг (Channing 
, Ченнинг 
) , across the world, is quite a rare surname. The cognomen Ченнинг is characteristic of Northern Europe, particularly Jersey, where it is quite a common surname, Isle of Man, where it is quite a rare surname, and the United Kingdom. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. More prevalently, Ченнинг is the forename as well as the last name.