Châñd
surname · Latin script
Châñd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 79th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hindi चंद (cand).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 12K
- ZMZambia≈1 in 330as Chanda
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Châñd itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #442 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77 (inferred from the name graph)
107,689 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Fiji, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
18 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chand in IN India, US United States, FJ Fiji and 1 more, Chanda in ZM Zambia and เฉิน in CN China.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Hindi चंद (cand).
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Châñd counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #79 | 107,689 | 1 in 12K | 108K | Chand | 226 |
| US United States | — | 76,664as Chan | 1 in 4.3K | 1.2M | Chand | 289 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 330 | 96K | Chanda | 40 |
| PK Pakistan | #174 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | listed | Chand | 54 |
| CN China | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | เฉิน | 24 |
| FJ Fiji | #1 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 77 | 32K | Chand | 53 |
| GD Grenada | — | 3,268as Charles | 1 in 35 | 3.3K | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2,627as Charles | 1 in 286 | 2.6K | — | 1 |
| DM Dominica | — | 1,505as Charles | 1 in 49 | 1.5K | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1,394as Charles | 1 in 73 | 1.4K | — | — |
107,689 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es); The page provides insights into the most common Fijian surnames and their cultural significance, published by the Instit; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Châñd mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hindi चंद (cand). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Châñd have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 108 thousand people named Châñd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chand.
- How common is the name Châñd?
- In India, the national register counted 107,689 people named Châñd, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Châñd compared with other names?
- In India, Châñd is the 79th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%A2%C3%B1dThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Châñd” — the 79th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.