Chandra
The name carries the meaning "moon". Fewer than a hundred people in Poland use it and most are men, so meeting one stays with you.
Chandra Pronunciation
Chandra is pronounced KHAHND-rah (/ˈxandra/).
What Chandra means
Where Chandra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Chandra begins in Sanskrit, where चन्द्र (candra) names the moon. The same root holds a sense of shining or glowing, which is why old texts use it for anything luminous. Sanskrit poetry returned to candra whenever it needed the moon. In Hindu tradition Chandra is also a god, the lunar deity who drives a chariot across the night sky. So the name arrives already attached to the moon itself.
The English meaning stays simple. Moon. In Polish, księżyc.
A Polish child called Chandra will not find the name on a standard imieniny calendar, and a teacher reading a class register may pause at it. That pause is the point of a borrowed name. It comes from far outside the Slavic stock of Zofia or Katarzyna, and it keeps its Sanskrit shape. What it means has not drifted: the moon, candra, księżyc.
How many people are named Chandra
1 in 245358 men in Poland is named Chandra. 98 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3492 among male names.
Chandra as a middle name
Chandra is a first name for 98 men in Poland and a middle name for another 167, a 37/63 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 538th, between Tobias (168) and Friedrich (167).
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#536 Gabryel168
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#537 Tobias168
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#538 Chandra167
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#539 Friedrich167
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#540 Georges167