Chand
surname · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chand is a surname, most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is the 58th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: moon.
- THThailand1 in 307◐
- ZMZambia1 in 710
- HKHong Kong1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈208K ●
- #410 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 269 ●
- 1 in 35 ◐
across 17 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
2.2M records
Official registry-verified
Grenada
Spellings & scripts●
16 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chanda in ZM Zambia, BR Brazil, SE Sweden and 3 more, Chan in MY Malaysia, HK Hong Kong, จินดา in TH Thailand and จีน in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
moon
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #58 | 305,026 | 174K rec. | — | #88,911 | จินดา | 160 |
| IN India | #67 | 107,689 | 1.9M rec. | 1 in 12K | 108K | Chand | 210 |
| US United States | — | 76,664 | 40K rec. | 1 in 4.3K | 1.2M | Chand | 269 |
| PK Pakistan | #171 | 21,095 | 1.7K rec. | — | listed | Chand | 53 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 5,135 | — | 1 in 2.1K | 5.1K | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,652 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Chand | 86 |
| GD Grenada | — | 3,268△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 35 | 3.3K | — | 1 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 2,996 | 360 rec. | — | 96K | Chanda | 39 |
| FR France | — | 2,924△ | 13 rec. | 1 in 23K | 245K | จีน | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 2,880 | 2.8K rec. | — | 1.3K | Chan | 39 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2,627△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 286 | 2.6K | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,304 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Chanda | 23 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi2.8M50%
- 2.5M44%
- English70K1%
- Bangla54K1%
- Urdu48K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 2,837,578 | 50% |
| 2,486,406 | 44% | |
| English | 69,878 | 1% |
| Bangla | 53,912 | 1% |
| Urdu | 47,510 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1899 | 5 |
| 1909 | 1 |
| 1911 | 1 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1913 | 1 |
| 1914 | 8 |
| 1915 | 2 |
| 1916 | 4 |
| 1917 | 7 |
| 1918 | 23 |
| 1919 | 12 |
| 1920 | 19 |
| 1921 | 26 |
| 1922 | 33 |
| 1923 | 37 |
| 1924 | 70 |
| 1925 | 50 |
| 1926 | 80 |
| 1927 | 90 |
| 1928 | 85 |
| 1929 | 125 |
| 1930 | 120 |
| 1931 | 126 |
| 1932 | 178 |
| 1933 | 128 |
| 1934 | 206 |
| 1935 | 157 |
| 1936 | 180 |
| 1937 | 182 |
| 1938 | 159 |
| 1939 | 242 |
| 1940 | 227 |
| 1941 | 220 |
| 1942 | 280 |
| 1943 | 245 |
| 1944 | 361 |
| 1945 | 267 |
| 1946 | 321 |
| 1947 | 312 |
| 1948 | 329 |
| 1949 | 388 |
| 1950 | 340 |
| 1951 | 356 |
| 1952 | 394 |
| 1953 | 378 |
| 1954 | 504 |
| 1955 | 394 |
| 1956 | 471 |
| 1957 | 557 |
| 1958 | 515 |
| 1959 | 658 |
| 1960 | 578 |
| 1961 | 572 |
| 1962 | 747 |
| 1963 | 640 |
| 1964 | 818 |
| 1965 | 682 |
| 1966 | 859 |
| 1967 | 867 |
| 1968 | 854 |
| 1969 | 960 |
| 1970 | 1,014 |
| 1971 | 1,027 |
| 1972 | 1,194 |
| 1973 | 1,090 |
| 1974 | 1,164 |
| 1975 | 1,183 |
| 1976 | 1,464 |
| 1977 | 1,121 |
| 1978 | 1,154 |
| 1979 | 1,162 |
| 1980 | 1,153 |
| 1981 | 1,319 |
| 1982 | 1,645 |
| 1983 | 1,734 |
| 1984 | 1,935 |
| 1985 | 1,762 |
| 1986 | 1,519 |
| 1987 | 1,697 |
| 1988 | 1,821 |
| 1989 | 1,772 |
| 1990 | 1,893 |
| 1991 | 2,119 |
| 1992 | 2,163 |
| 1993 | 2,286 |
| 1994 | 1,878 |
| 1995 | 1,677 |
| 1996 | 786 |
| 1997 | 796 |
| 1998 | 460 |
| 1999 | 38 |
| 2000 | 2 |
| 2002 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 |
| 2007 | 17 |
| 2008 | 93 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2010 | 92 |
| 2011 | 42 |
| 2012 | 42 |
| 2013 | 42 |
| 2014 | 194 |
| 2015 | 114 |
| 2017 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 104 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Lokesh Chandrab. 1927INnot in their usual nameIndian historian
- Naresh Chandrab. 1934INnot in their usual nameIndian civil servant (1934-2017)
- Vikram Chandrab. 1961INnot in their usual nameIndian-American writer (born 1961)
- Sheila Chandrab. 1965GBnot in their usual nameEnglish pop singer and actress
- Vikram Chandrab. 1967INnot in their usual nameIndian businessman
- Tanuja Chandrab. 1969INnot in their usual nameIndian film director
- Alvent Yuliantob. 1980IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian badminton player
- Spencer Chandra Herbertb. 1981CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician
- Aoura Lovenson Chandrab. 1982IDnot in their usual namefilm producer
- Dutee Chandb. 1996INIndian sprinter
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 278 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Chand?
- We estimate roughly 208 thousand people bear Chand (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
- In which country does Chand have the most bearers?
- Chand is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled จินดา.
- Where is Chand most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chand is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 35 people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Chand compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Chand is the 58th most common surname of 1,043,186 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Chand mean?
- Recorded meaning: moon
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chand” — the 58th most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.