Chachal
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: naampy, 2015
Chachal is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Chachal is also written จันทร์ฉาย in Thai and চঞ্চল in Bengali.
- INIndia≈1 in 8.1Kas Chanchal(inferred from the name graph)
- THThailand≈1 in 8.3Kas จันทร์ฉาย
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 24Kfew recordsas Chanchal
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 Chachal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 named Chanchal, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est., as Chanchal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Chachal in other scripts: Latin, Thai and Bengali
(measured from records)11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chanchal in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 3 more and 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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chachal 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 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 411 | Chanchal | 180 |
| TH Thailand | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | register #95,919 | จันทร์ฉาย | 87 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Chanchal | 43 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 790K | — | Chanchal | 1 |
| US United States | 293as Chanchal | 1 in 1.1M | 192 | Chanchal | 127 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Chanchal | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Chachal a male or female name?
- Chachal 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Chachal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 179 thousand people named Chanchal in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Chachal?
- 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 Chachal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chachalThe 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, “Chachal” — ranked 10677th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.