Entry № 337 · Khmer origin

Chenda Chenda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHEN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Khmer
Meaning
"Moon"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Khmer)

A name that means "moon".

Chenda (ច័ន្ទា) is the Khmer (Cambodian) word for "moon" — from Sanskrit candra. A traditional Cambodian feminine name.

Used widely in Cambodia.

Moon. The Khmer-Sanskrit.

The name in its native script.

ច័ន្ទា
Transliteration
Chanthā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʃɛn.də /
Root
—
Grammatical form
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Where Chenda stands.

Chenda 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.

Chendas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Chenda
Common in Cambodian fiction.

Names connected to Chenda.

The number behind Chenda.

8

The Visionary

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