Entry № 1891 · Sanskrit origin

Chandrika Chandrika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHAHN-dree-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Moonlight"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "moonlight".

Chandrika (चन्द्रिका) is the Sanskrit word for "moonlight" — from chandra (moon). Also an epithet of the goddess Durga.

Chandrika Kumaratunga (born 1945) is the former President of Sri Lanka — the country's first female head of state.

Moonlight. The former President of Sri Lanka.

The name in its native script.

चन्द्रिका
Transliteration
Candrikā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʃɑːn.drɪ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chandrika stands.

Chandrika 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.

Chandrikas before her.

Real people
Chandrika Kumaratunga
Former President of Sri Lanka.
born 1945
In fiction
Chandrika
Common in Indian films.

Names connected to Chandrika.

The number behind Chandrika.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chandrika reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.