MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chandrabhanu mean?
Chandra denotes the moon and bhanu denotes light or a ray. Chandrabhanu combines them in an image of lunar radiance, a familiar theme in Indian poetic naming.
Pronunciation
IAST: candrabhānu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चन्द्रभानु
Letter-by-letter: candrabhānu
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଚନ୍ଦ୍ରଭାନୁ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chandrabhanu in Indian usage
3,631 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: 922 records (25.4%).
- Recorded as male: 2,709 records (74.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 413 |
| 1960s | 634 |
| 1970s | 958 |
| 1980s | 942 |
| 1990s | 480 |
| Other decades | 204 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 2,385 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 373 |
| Bihar | 343 |
| Assam | 331 |
| Other states | 199 |
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)
- Monier-Williams, bhānu, p. 751,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.