Chanda

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chanda is a given name, most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is the 58th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ardhanarigvara (N); Ganega (N); Siva (N).

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 17 countries

#410 ●

of 21M surnames

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
269 ●

2.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 35 ◐

Grenada

Spellings & scripts●

ChandLatin · Hindi●2.8M records
จินดาThai · Thai●49K records
চন্দBengali · Bangla●4.1K records
ጫንዳEthiopic · Amharic●1 records
චන්දSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

15 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chand in IN India, US United States, FJ Fiji and 5 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●

Ardhanarigvara (N); Ganega (N); Siva (N)

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Chanda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand#58305,026174K rec.—#88,911จินดา160
IN India#67107,6891.9M rec.1 in 12K108KChand210
US United States—76,66440K rec.1 in 4.3K1.2MChand269
PK Pakistan#17121,0951.7K rec.—listedChand53
CZ Czechia—5,135—1 in 2.1K5.1K——
GB United Kingdom—3,6522.3K rec.——Chand86
GD Grenada—3,268△1 rec.1 in 353.3K—1
ZM Zambia—2,996360 rec.—96KChanda39
FR France—2,924△13 rec.1 in 23K245Kจีน3
MY Malaysia—2,8802.8K rec.—1.3KChan39
GY Guyana—2,627△1 rec.1 in 2862.6K—2
PH Philippines—2,3041.8K rec.——Chanda23

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi849K80%
  • English80K8%
  • Khmer37K4%
  • 32K3%
  • Bangla17K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi849,16680%
English80,4648%
Khmer37,3544%
31,5203%
Bangla17,3872%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Chanda is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name106K records spelled Chanda20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Çhàñdá, Çhanda, Chañda, Chandà, Chändä

  • a separate given name72K records spelled Chanda3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Also written Čhandā, Chandā

  • French given name1.9K records spelled Chanda3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, India, Zambia

    Also written Châñdã

  • Ukrainian surname309 records spelled Chanda6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, India, Russia, United States

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Чанда

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900192019401960198020009.5K · 1992

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Chanda in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2015
Yearrecords
18996
19071
19134
19144
19152
191614
191713
19189
191926
192039
192135
192262
192364
192462
192566
192680
192778
192884
1929154
1930116
1931159
1932204
1933196
1934331
1935222
1936309
1937333
1938300
1939432
1940404
1941488
1942610
1943520
1944796
1945682
1946894
1947794
1948745
1949959
19501,003
19511,142
19521,252
19531,125
19541,369
19551,412
19561,640
19571,453
19581,925
19592,330
19602,061
19612,371
19623,010
19632,813
19643,139
19653,103
19663,569
19673,782
19683,482
19693,723
19703,848
19714,239
19724,744
19734,315
19744,247
19754,741
19765,178
19775,355
19785,491
19795,465
19804,045
19816,147
19827,114
19837,895
19847,377
19857,830
19866,836
19878,039
19887,104
19897,474
19907,045
19918,542
19929,462
19939,021
19947,470
19955,613
19964,228
19973,745
19982,041
1999255
20006
20014
20022
20079
2008972
20098
20101,125
201156
2012188
2013204
20141,127
2015796

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 101 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Chanda Legroulx, b. 1953Chanda Romero, b. 1954Chanda Jog, b. 1954Chanda Kochhar, b. 1961Chanda Sharma, b. 1970Chanda Rubin, b. 1976Chanda Dancy, b. 1978Chanda Gunn, b. 1980Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, b. 1982Chanda Vanvilay, b. 1985

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 49 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Chanda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ZM ZambiaZambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es)—96K#17
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—17K#690
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19929.5K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19939K—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—8.6K#279
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.6K#3,613
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#23,761
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)2015796—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010778#30,139
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000525#39,444
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—285—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020103#3,613

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 351 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Chanda?
We estimate roughly 208 thousand people bear Chanda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
In which country does Chanda have the most bearers?
Chanda is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled จินดา.
Where is Chanda most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chanda is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 35 people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
How common is Chanda compared with other names?
In Thailand, Chanda is the 58th most common surname of 1,043,186 surnames recorded there.
Is Chanda a male or female name?
Chanda is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Chanda mean?
Recorded meaning: Ardhanarigvara (N); Ganega (N); Siva (N)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

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” — the 58th most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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