Chanda

Where Chanda comes from

Chanda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #3,448 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1961
    Chanda Kochhar born
    Indian businesswoman
  3. 1976
    Chanda Rubin born
    American tennis player
  4. 1976
    Peak, #460
    418 babies named Chanda — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #824.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Chanda Rubin · American tennis player, born 1976
  • Chanda Kochhar · Indian businesswoman, born 1961
  • Chanda Prescod-Weinstein · American cosmologist, born 1982
  • Chanda Gunn · American ice hockey player, born 1980
  • Chanda Romero · Filipino television personality, born 1954

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.