girls:
17.3k births since 1935
#1135 (80th percentile)
boys:
66 births since 1969
#4520 (1st percentile)
overall:
17.3k births since 1935
#1957 (75th percentile)
The name Chandra is the #1,957 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,348 recorded births since 1935. This represents the 74.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,135 (80.2% percentile) for all time with 17,282 births since 1935. For boys, it ranks #4,520 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 66 births since 1969.
Chandra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1935 (1935 for girls and 1969 for boys). Birth data for Chandra is available in 76 out of the 89 years between 1935 and 2023 (76 years for girls and 10 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Chandra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Chandra reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 61.0% percentile (ranked #294) with 479 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 479 births per million (ranked 61.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1980, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Chandra ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Chandra reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #652) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chandra".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Chandra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.6% confident that Chandra is pronounced as CHAN-druh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHAHN-druh, at 27.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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