MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chandana mean?
Chandana is the feminine name formed from candana, “sandalwood”. The fragrant wood has a long place in perfumery and ceremonial sandal paste.
Pronunciation
IAST: candanā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चन्दना
Letter-by-letter: candanā
Conventional spelling
Bengali
চন্দনা
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଚନ୍ଦନା
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chandana in Indian usage
13,388 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 13,000 records (97.1%).
- Recorded as male: 388 records (2.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 178 |
| 1950s | 481 |
| 1960s | 1,421 |
| 1970s | 3,035 |
| 1980s | 4,955 |
| 1990s | 3,215 |
| Other decades | 103 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 3,074 |
| Assam | 3,069 |
| Tripura | 2,152 |
| Odisha | 2,135 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,104 |
| Bihar | 872 |
| Rajasthan | 470 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 206 |
| Uttarakhand | 178 |
| Other states | 128 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, candana, p. 386,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.