Chanda

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US: ~5,800 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025: 0 6,094 since 1880
Typical age: 49 years, median

Chanda popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1947–2009. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Chanda in 1976 than in any other year — 418 of them. The name does not appear in the data until 1947. Chanda has ranked inside the top 1,000 in 13 years.

No births were recorded under this name in 2025; the most recent year with data is 2009.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Chanda?

An estimated 5,800 living Americans are called Chanda. That is out of 6,094 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Chanda?

Median age among living Chandas: 49. The 1970s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Chanda a late 20th-century name.

Your Chanda

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Notable people named Chanda

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Chanda Rubin	American tennis player	1976	25
Chanda Kochhar	Indian businesswoman	1961	22
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein	American cosmologist	1982	11
Chanda Gunn	American ice hockey player	1980	8

Photo credits (3)

Chanda Rubin — Robbie Mendelson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein — United States Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chanda Gunn — Jeff, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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