Given name & surname
Chanda
“an enemy of evil”
Chanda is used as a given name and a surname. One Sanskrit interpretation is “an enemy of evil.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Sanskrit interpretation is “an enemy of evil.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1947. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chanda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6,094
- 16 boys · 6,078 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 418 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 418 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,658 as a first name in 2020; 1,101 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Chanda’s family of names
Chanda has a related form in Chandy. Chanda has a related form in Chandi. Chanda has a related form in Chand.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Chandivariant
- Chandeevariant
- Chandyvariant
- Chhandalikely variant
- Channdalikely variant
- Chandeahvariant
- Chandeavariant
- Chandievariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Chanda
- Chanda RubinAmerican tennis playerborn 1976
- Chanda KochharIndian businesswomanborn 1961
- Chanda Prescod-WeinsteinAmerican cosmologistborn 1982
- Chanda GunnAmerican ice hockey playerborn 1980
- Chanda RomeroFilipino television personalityborn 1954
- Chanda JogIndian Scientistborn 1954
- Chanda DancyAfrican-American musician and composerborn 1978
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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