Entry № 1947 · 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

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

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.