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Chanda

Girls' name

Fierce, hot, passionate

Chanda has been given to 6,094 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1976, with 418 recorded.

Babies named Chanda, 2009

1 in 546,000

Chanda over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chanda: meaning, origin, and history

Fierce, hot, passionate

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chanda means

Chanda means “fierce, hot, passionate”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chanda is used in Hinduism and Hindi.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈt͡ɕɐɳ.ɖɑː/ and /ˈt͡ɕɐɳ.ɖɐ/ for Chanda.

Origin, language, and formation

Chanda is used in Cebuano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,078 girls were recorded with the name Chanda between 1947 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 418 in 1976; its best national rank was #460 in 1976.

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Chanda between 1975 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1975; its best national rank was #4,885 in 1975.

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 Chanda?

Chanda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 546,000
7 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 262,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
378,293 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chanda 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 2009 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 378,293 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chandas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chanda was born before 1976 — so the typical Chanda is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
56.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,051
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 56.0% of all recorded uses (3,402).

Is Chanda 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 1976 (418)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#460
1976

Spellings of Chanda

Chanda is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 48.2% against Chanda's 0.37%.

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 Chanda is used

Across 1910–2025, Chanda was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 38,255 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Georgia1 in 20,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 20,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 25,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 25,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 25,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 25,000

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. Chanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chanda around the world

Where Chanda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–1997
    #3,174
    in 1997
  • France
    1984–1995
    #3,144
    in 1995
  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,397
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1986–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Chanda

People whose public names include Chanda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Chanda in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Chanda. Linked forms have their own page here.

ShandaShonda

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Chanda 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
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Best rank ever
#460
1976
Peak year
1976
418 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
6,078
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,885
1975
Peak year
1975
6 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chanda

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

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Names with a curve like Chanda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chanda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KishaAnitraTishaKeshaLashawnTawanaMistiTawandaWindyTomekaShanonShannan

Sibling names for Chanda

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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