Chanda
Chanda was last recorded in 2009, when 7 babies were given it; 6,094 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,730 Americans named Chanda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 44 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chanda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chanda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,989, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
418 babies in 1976, the peak
Chanda peaked in 1976, when 418 girls were given it, #460 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | #13,989 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,089 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,827 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,665 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,045 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,824 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,169 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,331 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,391 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,549 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 33 | #3,644 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,935 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,534 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,372 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,280 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,414 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,350 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,077 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 92 | #1,624 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 108 | #1,442 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,441 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 121 | #1,230 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 136 | #1,106 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 122 | #1,164 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 83 | #1,482 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 86 | #1,372 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 113 | #1,165 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 131 | #1,083 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 189 | #832 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 190 | #825 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 263 | #663 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 312 | #562 | 0.20 |
| 1977 | 412 | #469 | 0.27 |
| 1976 | 418 | #460 | 0.29 |
| 1975 | 401 | #467 | 0.28 |
| 1974 | 371 | #478 | 0.25 |
| 1973 | 340 | #507 | 0.23 |
| 1972 | 308 | #541 | 0.20 |
| 1971 | 327 | #550 | 0.20 |
| 1970 | 250 | #653 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 202 | #698 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 84 | #1,177 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 65 | #1,364 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,741 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,117 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,922 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,431 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,316 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,746 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,201 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,511 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,043 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,208 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,181 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,294 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,828 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,753 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,375 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,754 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,169 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,478 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chanda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chanda has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Chanda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chanda, and how old are they?
5,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 6,094 Americans ever recorded as Chanda. The median Chanda alive today is 50 years old; half are between 44 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 5,658 people named Chanda (5,555 women and girls, 103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,831 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 268 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,770 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 184 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Chanda born?
The states with the most babies named Chanda are Texas, California and Georgia, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 407 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 383 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 239 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 226 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 219 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 212 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 184 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 173 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 173 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 165 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Chanda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chanda is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1947 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chanda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,550 babies since 1880, Chanda is the most given (93% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chanda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chanda and names like it
- Compare Chanda and ChandiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChanda peaked in 1976.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chanda since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Chanda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Chanda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.