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Candra

Girls' name

From Javanese Candra; literal meaning unconfirmed

Candra has been given to 1,815 babies in the U.S. since 1946. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 87 recorded.

Babies named Candra, 2013

1 in 521,000

Candra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Candra: meaning, origin, and history

From Javanese Candra; literal meaning unconfirmed

Javanese

What Candra means

Candra is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Candra is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Javanese.

Candra comes through Javanese Candra.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,815 girls were recorded with the name Candra between 1946 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 87 in 1984; its best national rank was #1,363 in 1984.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Candra?

Candra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 521,000
7 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 251,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
361,026 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Candra sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 361,026 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Candra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Candras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Candra was born before 1984 — so the typical Candra is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,797
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (677).

Is Candra rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (87)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,363
1984

Spellings of Candra

Candra is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 43.5% against Candra's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Candra is used

Across 1910–2025, Candra was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 321,996 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Candra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Candra by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,363
1984
Peak year
1984
87 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
1,815
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Candra

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Candra

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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