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Chandan

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Chandan has been given to 54 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 1998, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Chandan, 2012

1 in 610,000

Chandan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chandan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Chandan means

Chandan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Chandan is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 54 boys were recorded with the name Chandan between 1997 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1998; its best national rank was #7,686 in 1998.

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 Chandan?

Chandan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,543 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chandan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 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 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chandan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chandans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chandan was born before 2004 — so the typical Chandan is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
55.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
54
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Chandan 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (7)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,686
1998

Spellings of Chandan

Chandan is not the most common spelling — Canaan is, with 37.2% against Chandan's 0.34%.

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.

Chandan around the world

Where Chandan 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
    1999–2001
    #3,134
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Chandan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,686
1998
Peak year
1998
7 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
54
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chandan

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

CharvikChanochCharisCharmingChaskeChamberChadwinChalmusChaskelChandenCharronChananChananyaChandraChadneyChallenCharityChalresChalinoChaisonCharithChanninCharmChasyn

Sibling names for Chandan

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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