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Chandran name meaning

“moon”

Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
C
Origin
Sanskrit · Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1960s: 9%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s9%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: CMeaning the moonSanskrit origin

Chandran is a male name from Sanskrit candra, meaning 'moon'.

What does Chandran mean?

Moon

In Malay: bulan

#The moon#Light

Sources (1)

About the name Chandran

Chandran is the Tamil and Malayalam form of Sanskrit candra, meaning 'moon'. The word candra also means 'shining' or 'glittering'. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1960s with 741 baby boys. JPN counts the first word of registered names.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginSanskrit, Tamil
SyllablesChan-dran
First letterIndian Names starting with C

Chandran in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 741 · 9%
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Chandran as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: चन्द्र (candra) · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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