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How popular is “Chandra” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chandra” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Chandra” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Chandra” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Chandra” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Chandra” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Chandra” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chandra” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1935 6 0.000002871 6 100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 100%
1950 19 0.000005423 19 100%
1951 17 0.000004615 17 100%
1952 16 0.000004213 16 100%
1953 28 0.000007266 28 100%
1954 57 0.000014319 57 100%
1955 79 0.000019676 79 100%
1956 113 0.000027407 113 100%
1957 165 0.000039266 165 100%
1958 232 0.000056121 232 100%
1959 181 0.000043531 181 100%
1960 153 0.000036834 153 100%
1961 187 0.000045144 187 100%
1962 187 0.00004634 187 100%
1963 229 0.000057855 229 100%
1964 259 0.000066622 259 100%
1965 285 0.000078611 285 100%
1966 349 0.000100413 349 100%
1967 405 0.000119297 405 100%
1968 483 0.000142967 483 100%
1969 615 0.000176962 607 8 97%
1970 695 0.000192707 695 100%
1971 689 0.000200737 683 6 98%
1972 667 0.000212218 660 7 98%
1973 658 0.000218106 653 5 98%
1974 713 0.00023454 713 100%
1975 753 0.000249388 747 6 98%
1976 691 0.00022773 682 9 97%
1977 664 0.000209035 664 100%
1978 651 0.000205112 645 6 98%
1979 556 0.000167118 556 100%
1980 573 0.000166352 573 100%
1981 539 0.000155808 539 100%
1982 483 0.000137687 478 5 98%
1983 462 0.000133397 462 100%
1984 438 0.000125546 429 9 96%
1985 409 0.000114594 409 100%
1986 398 0.00011189 398 100%
1987 365 0.000101231 365 100%
1988 338 0.000091474 338 100%
1989 294 0.000076474 294 100%
1990 280 0.000070842 280 100%
1991 250 0.00006418 250 100%
1992 199 0.000051806 199 100%
1993 182 0.000048272 182 100%
1994 151 0.000040617 151 100%
1995 137 0.00003741 137 100%
1996 130 0.000035644 125 5 92%
1997 105 0.00002896 105 100%
1998 118 0.000032081 118 100%
1999 82 0.000022199 82 100%
2000 76 0.000020106 76 100%
2001 82 0.000021905 82 100%
2002 53 0.000014178 53 100%
2003 60 0.00001578 60 100%
2004 41 0.00001073 41 100%
2005 43 0.000011184 43 100%
2006 39 0.000009858 39 100%
2007 29 0.000007254 29 100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 100%
2009 23 0.000006021 23 100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 100%
2011 18 0.000004921 18 100%
2012 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Chandra:

  1. Chandley
  2. Chandlor
  3. Chandlyr
  4. Chandni
  5. Chandon
  6. Chandra (this page)
  7. Chandre
  8. Chandrea
  9. Chandrell
  10. Chandria
  11. Chandrika