MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chandani mean?
Chandani is the Hindi moonlight name associated with chāndnī. Its base chānd, moon, developed from Sanskrit candra.
Pronunciation
IAST: cā̃danī
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चाँदनी
Letter-by-letter: cā̃danī
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
चांदनी
Letter-by-letter: cāṃdanī
81,127 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
चान्दनी
Letter-by-letter: cāndanī
4,080 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chandani in Indian usage
116,059 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 115,269 records (99.3%).
- Recorded as male: 790 records (0.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 217 |
| 1940s | 462 |
| 1950s | 1,010 |
| 1960s | 2,501 |
| 1970s | 6,285 |
| 1980s | 31,028 |
| 1990s | 74,359 |
| Other decades | 197 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 58,796 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 32,318 |
| Jharkhand | 7,986 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 7,693 |
| Rajasthan | 3,707 |
| Haryana | 1,522 |
| Punjab | 1,307 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,154 |
| Odisha | 389 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 261 |
| Delhi | 233 |
| Maharashtra | 163 |
| Chandigarh | 144 |
| Goa | 119 |
| Manipur | 110 |
| Other states | 157 |
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