Chando

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Chand in IN India, US United States, FJ Fiji and 5 more, Chanda in ZM Zambia, BR Brazil, SE Sweden and 3 more, Chan in MY Malaysia, HK Hong Kong and จินดา in TH Thailand.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

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◐

Chando is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name2.1K records spelled Chando7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Canada, South Africa

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Khando

• Ukrainian given name111 records spelled Chando6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in China, India, Russia

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

  Also written Чандо, Chãndõ

39 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●

Chando is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In pi, nominative singular of chanda (“wish”)

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 98 years between 1911–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Alexandra Chandob. 1986USAmerican actress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 203 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Chando?

We estimate roughly 208 thousand people bear Chando (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.

In which country does Chando have the most bearers?

Chando is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled จินดา.

Where is Chando most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chando is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 35 people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.

How common is Chando compared with other names?

In Thailand, Chando is the 58th most common surname of 1,043,186 surnames recorded there.

Is Chando a male or female name?

Chando 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.