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Chandni

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Chandni has been given to 400 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1992, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Chandni, 2007

1 in 800,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chandni: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Chandni means

Chandni is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Chandni is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 400 girls were recorded with the name Chandni between 1985 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1992; its best national rank was #2,983 in 1992.

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 Chandni?

Chandni had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 800,000
5 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
554,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chandni 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 2007 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 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chandni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chandnis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chandni was born before 1994 — so the typical Chandni is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
63.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
400
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 63.0% of all recorded uses (252).

Is Chandni 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (39)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,983
1992

Spellings of Chandni

Chandni is not the most common spelling — Chandra is, with 48.7% against Chandni's 1.1%.

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 Chandni is used

Across 1910–2025, Chandni was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 368,837 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 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. Chandni has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chandni around the world

Where Chandni 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
    1996–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1991–2001
    #2,269
    in 2001

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

Chandni 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
#2,983
1992
Peak year
1992
39 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
400
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chandni

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

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Sibling names for Chandni

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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