Chanda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ardhanarigvara (N); Ganega (N); Siva (N) (Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections, 2021
Chanda is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 79th most common surname. Chanda is also written จินดา in Thai, চন্দ in Bengali and ጫንዳ in Ethiopic.
- ZMZambia≈1 in 530(inferred from the name graph)
- GDGrenada1 in 35as Charles
- DMDominica1 in 49as Charles
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chanda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #442 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 530 (inferred from the name graph)
107,689 named Chand
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Zambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Chanda in other scripts: Latin, Thai, Bengali and 2 more
(measured from records)16 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chand in IN India, US United States, FJ Fiji and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Ardhanarigvara (N); Ganega (N); Siva (N)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where the surname Chanda is found
(measured from records)Chanda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #79 | 107,689as Chand | 1 in 12K | 108K | Chand | 226 |
| US United States | — | 76,664as Chan | 1 in 4.3K | 1.2M | Chand | 289 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 530 | 96K | Chanda | 40 |
| PK Pakistan | #174 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Chand | 54 |
| FJ Fiji | #1 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 59 | 32K | Chand | 53 |
| GD Grenada | — | 3,268as Charles | 1 in 35 | 3.3K | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2,627as Charles | 1 in 286 | 2.6K | — | 1 |
| DM Dominica | — | 1,505as Charles | 1 in 49 | 1.5K | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1,394as Charles | 1 in 73 | 1.4K | — | — |
107,689 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es); The page provides insights into the most common Fijian surnames and their cultural significance, published by the Instit; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Chanda is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, impulse, will, wish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, finger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Chanda Rubinb. 1976USAmerican tennis player
- Chanda Dancyb. 1978USAfrican-American musician and composer
- Chanda Prescod-Weinsteinb. 1982USAmerican cosmologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)49 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chanda mean, and where does it come from?
- Ardhanarigvara (N); Ganega (N); Siva (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chanda?
- In India, the national register counted about 108 thousand people named Chand, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Zambia, Pakistan and Fiji; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Chanda a male or female name?
- Chanda is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and India (naampy, 2015).
- How common is the name Chanda?
- In India, the national register counted 107,689 people named Chand, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Chanda compared with other names?
- In India, Chanda is the 79th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chanda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chandaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chanda” — ranked 174th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.