Chandrika

Girls' name

Moonlight, moonshine

Chandrika has been given to 161 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1972, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Chandrika, 2002

1 in 747,000

Chandrika over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chandrika: meaning, origin, and history

Moonlight, moonshine

Sanskrit

What Chandrika means

Chandrika means “moonlight, moonshine”, associated with candrikā.

Origin, language, and formation

Chandrika is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Chandrika comes through Sanskrit चन्द्रिका.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 161 girls were recorded with the name Chandrika between 1968 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1972; its best national rank was #2,608 in 1972.

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 Chandrika?

Chandrika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002: 1 in 747,000; 5 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only: 1 in 359,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 518,097 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Chandrika 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 2002 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 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chandrika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chandrikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chandrika was born before 1978 — so the typical Chandrika is around 47 today.

Median birth year: 1978; About 47 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 54.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 161; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (70).

Is Chandrika 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: —; 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 1972 (27)
Years since peak: 53; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 43.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,608; 1972

Spellings of Chandrika

Chandrika is not the most common spelling — Chandra is, with 99.1% against Chandrika's 0.92%.

Chandra99.1%17,283
Chandrika0.92%161

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 Chandrika is used

Across 1910–2025, Chandrika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Chandrika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chandrika around the world

Where Chandrika 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
#3,824
in 1997
South Australia
1997–1997
#681
in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Chandrika 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: #2,608; 1972
Peak year: 1972; 27 that year
First recorded: 1968
Last recorded: 2002
All-time count: 161
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Chandrika

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

Sibling names for Chandrika

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

For a sister

Nicola Latonia Jenni Nicki Sharla Niki Trena Melonie

For a brother

Shon Shelton Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Demond Scottie

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