Chandra

At the 2020 census, 4,513 Americans bore the surname Chandra — 7,133rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 66,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,513
Rank: 7,133rd
How common: 1 in 66,200
Per 100,000: 1.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Chandra described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 89.4%
White, not Hispanic 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Chandra

Tanuja Chandra (born 1969)Indian film director
Sheila Chandra (born 1965)English pop singer and actress
Vikram Chandra (born 1961)Indian-American writer
Rani Chandra (1949–1976)Indian actress

People named Chandra with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Chandra

Also a first name

Chandra has been given to 17,349 American babies as a first name since 1935, peaking in 1975. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.