Chanchal
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃant͡ʃəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chanchal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 9Kas จันทร์ฉาย
- NPNepal≈1 in 13K
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 Chanchal 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled จันทร์ฉาย in TH Thailand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chanchal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Chanchal | 43 |
| TH Thailand | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 9K | #95,919 | จันทร์ฉาย | 87 |
| NP Nepal | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Chanchal | 12 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 391K | — | Chanchal | 1 |
| US United States | 293 | 1 in 1.1M | 192 | Chanchal | 127 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Chanchal | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Chanchal | 8 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Chanchal Chowdhuryb. 1974BDBangladeshi actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 192 | #29,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 101 | #29,961 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Chanchal?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃant͡ʃəɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Chanchal a male or female name?
- Chanchal is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Chanchal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Chanchal in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chanchal.
- How common is the name Chanchal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 293 people named Chanchal in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Chanchal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chanchalThe 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, “Chanchal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.