How popular is the name Chandra?

Chandra ranks 1,007th among girls' names in US records, with 17,348 births since 1935. Over the past decade it accounts for 51.

Is Chandra a unisex name?

No. Chandra is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1975, when 747 children were given the name. It has been in use for 89 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,007 of girl names

Pronounced CH AE1 N D R AH0 (ARPABET)

Chandra is a girls' name, and first appears in 1935. It has been given to 17,348 children — the 1,007th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 51 births across the past decade, against a peak of 747 in a single year. That peak was in 1975.

1975Girls: 747Boys: 6

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Chandra?: Chandra ranks 1,007th among girls' names in US records, with 17,348 births since 1935. Over the past decade it accounts for 51.
Is Chandra a unisex name?: No. Chandra is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Chandra most popular?: 1975, when 747 children were given the name. It has been in use for 89 years and is still recorded as of 2024.