Chaand as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Chaand

What is the meaning of the name Chaand ?

The baby name Chaand is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /tʃɑːnd/ (approx. "chahnd"; Hindi: [tʃãːd]).

Chaand is Hindi, Urdu in Origin.

Chaand (Devanagari चाँद; Urdu چاند; Bengali চাঁদ) is a South Asian given name meaning “moon,” from Sanskrit candra, ‘shining, lunar.’ The doubled vowel reflects the long ā sound in Hindi-Urdu; pronunciation approximates “chand” with a nasalized a. Used across Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, and Bengali, it functions as a tender poetic epithet and a unisex personal name, though slightly more common for boys.

Across the subcontinent and its diaspora, Chaand appears in ghazals and folk songs as a symbol of beauty and calm, which helped it enter everyday naming from the medieval period onward. Common variants and related forms include Chand (the most widespread transliteration), Chanda (often feminine, also a surname), Chandra and Chander (Sanskritized/North Indian forms), and Punjabi Chann. It may also occur in compounds (e.g., Chand Ali, Chandrajit) and as a family name in parts of India and Nepal.