MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chando mean?
Chando is a regional affectionate form built around chand, the moon. The rounded ending belongs to familiar household naming in parts of northern and eastern India.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चाँदो
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
चांदो
Letter-by-letter: cāṃdo
3,315 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
चंदो
Letter-by-letter: caṃdo
2,601 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
चान्दो
Letter-by-letter: cāndo
2,333 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chando in Indian usage
9,251 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 6,388 records (69.1%).
- Recorded as male: 2,863 records (30.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 552 |
| 1940s | 1,257 |
| 1950s | 1,820 |
| 1960s | 2,101 |
| 1970s | 1,652 |
| 1980s | 1,123 |
| 1990s | 610 |
| Other decades | 136 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 3,422 |
| Jharkhand | 3,056 |
| Rajasthan | 1,332 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 617 |
| Haryana | 595 |
| Other states | 229 |
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, candra, p. 386,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.