Chandra — girls' name

What the Data Says About Chandra

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,282 babies named Chandra between 1935 and 2023, spanning 89 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chandra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 747 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chandra performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 6,698 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Chandra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,627 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Chandra in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chandra in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 17,282 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.