Chandana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit; of the sandalwood tree
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chandana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 655(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 410K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 37K
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 Chandana 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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 655 (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Chandina in BD Bangladesh.
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)
Sanskrit; of the sandalwood tree
Sources 1
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Where in the world(measured from records)
Chandana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #41 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 655 | — | Chandana | 78 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Chandina | 22 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Chandana | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Chandana | 15 |
| US United States | — | 811 | 1 in 410K | 751 | Chandana | 156 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Chandana | 74 |
| GY Guyana | — | 53as Chandani | 1 in 14K | 53 | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Chandana | 17 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Chandana SooriyabandaraLKSri Lankan journalist and media personality
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 751 | #14,531 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 60 | #14,531 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Chandana mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit; of the sandalwood tree Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How common is the name Chandana?
- In the United States, the national register counted 811 people named Chandana in 2020, about 1 in 410 thousand residents.
- How common is Chandana compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Chandana is the 41st most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
- Is Chandana a male or female name?
- Chandana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Chandana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Chandana in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chandana.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chandanaThe 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, “Chandana” — the 41st most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.