Chandrika
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chandrika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit चन्द्रिका (candrikā, “moonlight, moonshine”).
- USUnited States1 in 260K(measured from records)
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 2.8K
- NPNepal≈1 in 5.3K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 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)
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)
From Sanskrit चन्द्रिका (candrikā, “moonlight, moonshine”).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chandrika 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 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Chandrika | 17 |
| NP Nepal | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Chandrika | 18 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Chandrika | 43 |
| US United States | 1,281 | 1 in 260K | 1.2K | Chandrika | 187 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Chandrika | 15 |
| AO Angola | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Chandrika | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 135 | 1 in 5.6K | 135 | — | — |
| KW Kuwait | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Chandrika | 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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chandrika is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Chandrika Prasad Srivastavab. 1920INIndian diplomat (1920–2013)
- Chandrika Kumaratungab. 1945LKPresident of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005
- Chandrika Mallawarachchib. 1950LKbadminton player
- Chandrika Gururajb. 1959INIndian playback singer
- Chandrika de Silvab. 1974LKSri Lankan badminton player
- P. C. Thulasib. 1991INnot in their usual nameIndian badminton player
- Chandrika TandonINIndian-American businesswoman and artist
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Chandrika mean, and where does it come from?
- From Sanskrit चन्द्रिका (candrikā, “moonlight, moonshine”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Chandrika a male or female name?
- Chandrika 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 Chandrika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Chandrika in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chandrika.
- How common is the name Chandrika?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,281 people named Chandrika in 2020, about 1 in 260 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chandrika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chandrikaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Chandrika”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.