Chandra

Girl name

Chandra has been given to 17,349 babies in the U.S. since 1935. It peaked in 1975.

Meaning & origin

Borrowed from Sanskrit चन्द्र (candrá, “moon”)API

Origin: Sanskrit

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Total babies

17,349

Peak year

1975 (753 babies)

Rank in 2025

Below top 1000

First recorded

1935

10-year trend

▼ -100%

Gender split

100% girls / 0% boys

Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as Chandra.

17,655 babies since 1880

17,690 babies since 1947

18,033 babies since 1914

18,444 babies since 1948

16,097 babies since 1912

15,756 babies since 1914

19,003 babies since 1915

15,666 babies since 1897

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