Chander
surname · Latin script
Meaning: the moon
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃəndɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chander is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common surname.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.1Kas Chandra(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.4Kas Chandra
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.9Kas Chandra
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 Chander itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- #369 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 429 (measured from records)
- 1 in 219K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 named Chandra, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Chandra in IN India, ID Indonesia, US United States and 3 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)
the moon
Sources 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chander 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #63 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Chandra | 258 |
| IN India | #65 | 162,438as Chandra | 1 in 8.2K | 162K | Chandra | 286 |
| BD Bangladesh | #30 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | listed | Chandra | 92 |
| MY Malaysia | #441 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Chandra | 61 |
| US United States | — | 3,645as Chandra | 1 in 91K | 17K | Chandra | 429 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Chander | 31 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Chander | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 79 | 1 in 219K | 124 | Chandra | 26 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- V. Chanderb. 1925INbadminton player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16K | #85 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.5K | #2,673 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 766 | #32,238 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 601 | #37,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 453 | #44,654 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 79 | #22,829 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chander mean, and where does it come from?
- the moon Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- How do you pronounce Chander?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃəndɝ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What are other forms of the name Chander?
- In the etymology graph, Chandra is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Chander have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 234 thousand people named Chandra in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Chander most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chander is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 219 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chander?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 79 people named Chander in 2007, about 1 in 219 thousand residents.
- How common is Chander compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Chander is the 63rd most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chanderThe 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, “Chander” — the 63rd most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.