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Chandra

Girls' name · Late 20th-century · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~16,400 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025
0 17,349 since 1880
Typical age
49 years, median

Chandra popularity over time

Chandra rank by birth year, 1935–2023Chandra ranked #3,742 in 1935 and #11,169 in 2023. Its best rank in the period was #307, in 1975.#1,000#10,000#11,169best #307 in 197519401960198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1935–2023. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Chandra in 1975 than in any other year — 753 of them. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1935. Chandra has ranked inside the top 1,000 in 37 years.

No births were recorded under this name in 2025; the most recent year with data is 2023.

Babies named Chandra per yearPeaks at 753 births in 1975.753 in 1975019401960198020002020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Chandra?

Roughly 16,400 Chandras are alive in the US right now. That is out of 17,349 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 Chandra?

Half of living Chandras are older than 49, half younger. The 1970s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Chandra a late 20th-century name.

Your Chandra

Ages of living people named ChandraHalf of living Chandras are older than 49 and half younger.median 49020406080
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where the name Chandra comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit चन्द्र (“moon”)

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Notable people named Chandra

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Chandra Shekhar Prime Minister of India 1927–2007 54
Chandra Wilson American actress and director 1969 39
Chandra Bahadur Dangi Nepali man who was the shortest man in recorded history 1939–2015 36
Chandra Shekhar Azad Indian activist and socialist and revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer 1906–1931 34
Chandra Sturrup athletics competitor 1971 29
Chandra Crawford Canadian cross-country skier 1983 22
Chandra Cheeseborough American sprinter 1959 22
Chandra Talpade Mohanty Indian feminism and women's studies professor 1955 16
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Chandra

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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