Meaning not yet researched.
Chandra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #307 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #307 in 1975. No US babies were recorded with the name Chandra in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #307 in 1975.
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Chandra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #307 in 1975 · most girls in one year: 747 (1975).
Fewer than five US girls were named Chandra in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #307, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 747. For comparison, it was #13,300 in 2015 and #2,263 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chandra in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 6 babies. In all, 17,349 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 6,737 babies named Chandra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 38 US girls were named Chandra; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 16.
Rarer spellings such as Chaundra and Khandra are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chaundra (574), Khandra (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Chandra in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | #11,394 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,585 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,161 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,168 | — | — |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,300 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,965 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,693 | — | — |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,600 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,915 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,762 | — | — |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,930 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,170 | — | — |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,983 | — | — |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,576 | — | — |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,826 | — | — |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1998 | 118 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,349 | 5 | #9,217 |
| 1995 | 137 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1994 | 151 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1993 | 182 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1992 | 199 | #964 | — | — |
| 1991 | 250 | #822 | — | — |
| 1990 | 280 | #742 | — | — |
| 1989 | 294 | #688 | — | — |
| 1988 | 338 | #594 | — | — |
| 1987 | 365 | #548 | — | — |
| 1986 | 398 | #519 | — | — |
| 1985 | 409 | #496 | — | — |
| 1984 | 429 | #477 | 9 | #4,261 |
| 1983 | 462 | #445 | — | — |
| 1982 | 478 | #448 | 5 | #6,520 |
| 1981 | 539 | #409 | — | — |
| 1980 | 573 | #396 | — | — |
| 1979 | 556 | #391 | — | — |
| 1978 | 645 | #337 | 6 | #5,155 |
| 1977 | 664 | #341 | — | — |
| 1976 | 682 | #326 | 9 | #3,760 |
| 1975 | 747 | #307 | 6 | #4,888 |
| 1974 | 713 | #318 | — | — |
| 1973 | 653 | #338 | 5 | #5,211 |
| 1972 | 660 | #341 | 7 | #4,038 |
| 1971 | 683 | #356 | 6 | #4,467 |
| 1970 | 695 | #357 | — | — |
| 1969 | 608 | #377 | 8 | #3,354 |
| 1968 | 483 | #432 | — | — |
| 1967 | 405 | #470 | — | — |
| 1966 | 349 | #504 | — | — |
| 1965 | 284 | #567 | — | — |
| 1964 | 260 | #632 | — | — |
| 1963 | 229 | #665 | — | — |
| 1962 | 187 | #761 | — | — |
| 1961 | 187 | #762 | — | — |
| 1960 | 153 | #833 | — | — |
| 1959 | 181 | #755 | — | — |
| 1958 | 232 | #648 | — | — |
| 1957 | 165 | #783 | — | — |
| 1956 | 113 | #949 | — | — |
| 1955 | 79 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1954 | 57 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,686 | — | — |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,026 | — | — |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,171 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,741 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,820 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).