Entry № 1887 · Sanskrit origin

Chandni Chandni — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHAHN-dnee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Moonlight (iconic Chandni Sridevi Yash Chopra 1989)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Sanskrit)

A name that means "moonlight (iconic chandni sridevi yash chopra 1989)".

Chandni is from the Sanskrit candanī (चन्दनी — moonlight, moonbeam). Princess Chandni — Sanskrit-Hindu heritage naming.

Moonlight (iconic Chandni Sridevi Yash Chopra 1989) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

चांदनी
Transliteration
Cāndnī
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʃɑːnd.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chandni stands.

Chandni does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Chandnis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Chandni (1989)
Iconic Yash Chopra + Sridevi film.
1989

Names connected to Chandni.

The number behind Chandni.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chandni reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.