Given name & surname
Chandan
“born beneath the moon's light”
Chandan is a variant of Chand. One Hindi interpretation is “born beneath the moon's light.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Chandan is a variant of Chand. One Hindi interpretation is “born beneath the moon's light.”
Explained through its name family
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 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chandan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 54
- 54 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 7 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 boys is 6 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 826 as a first name in 2020; 215 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.
Chandan’s family of names
Chandan has a related form in Chand.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Chandan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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