Chandra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Indian-origin name meaning “moon”; used for women
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃændɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chandra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common surname.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.4K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- #369 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 429 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Chander in AE United Arab Emirates, KW Kuwait.
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)
Indian-origin name meaning “moon”; used for women.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chandra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #63 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Chandra | 258 |
| IN India | #65 | 162,438 | 1 in 8.2K | 162K | Chandra | 286 |
| BD Bangladesh | #30 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | listed | Chandra | 92 |
| MY Malaysia | #441 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Chandra | 61 |
| US United States | — | 3,645 | 1 in 91K | 17K | Chandra | 429 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Chander | 31 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Chander | 10 |
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. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chandra is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
,9 Sanskrit: ‘moon’. Though the moon is always regarded as a male deity in Hinduism, it is also popular as a female name.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A unisex given name from Sanskrit.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, J. pers. name, Bengali
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Sanskrit
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, from Sanskrit; meaning 'moon'
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lokesh Chandrab. 1927INIndian historian
- Naresh Chandrab. 1934INIndian civil servant (1934-2017)
- Ade Chandrab. 1950IDbadminton player
- Vikram Chandrab. 1961INIndian-American writer (born 1961)
- Sheila Chandrab. 1965GBEnglish pop singer and actress
- Vikram Chandrab. 1967INIndian businessman
- Tanuja Chandrab. 1969INIndian film director
- Alvent Yuliantob. 1980IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian badminton player
- Spencer Chandra Herbertb. 1981CACanadian politician
- Aoura Lovenson Chandrab. 1982IDfilm producer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 162K | #130 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11K | #124 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.5K | #7,133 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #8,977 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,818 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Chandra?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃændɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Chandra mean, and where does it come from?
- Indian-origin name meaning “moon”; used for women. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- In which country does Chandra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 234 thousand people named Chandra in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chandra.
- What are other forms of the name Chandra?
- In the etymology graph, Chander is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Chandra?
- In India, the national register counted 162,438 people named Chandra, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Chandra compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Chandra is the 63rd most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chandraThe 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, “Chandra” — the 63rd most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.