# Chanda (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/chanda/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,094 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 16 / 6,078 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 58 | 2,285 |
| 1996 | 34 | 3,377 |
| 1997 | 23 | 4,537 |
| 1998 | 29 | 3,938 |
| 1999 | 33 | 3,648 |
| 2000 | 26 | 4,554 |
| 2001 | 14 | 7,397 |
| 2002 | 8 | 11,337 |
| 2003 | 11 | 9,174 |
| 2004 | 8 | 11,830 |
| 2005 | 8 | 12,051 |
| 2006 | 5 | 17,670 |
| 2007 | 9 | 11,831 |
| 2008 | 5 | 18,095 |
| 2009 | 7 | 13,995 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 6 | 4,887 |
| 1982 | 5 | 6,519 |
| 1988 | 5 | 7,454 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 4 | 3,174 |

## People named Chanda

- Chanda Rubin, American tennis player
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, American cosmologist
- Chanda Gunn, American ice hockey player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.