Chakra
surname · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chakra is a surname, with more bearers in India than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script.
- INIndia1 in 107K◐
- USUnited States1 in 265M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈12K ◐
- Sources
- 32 ●
- 1 in 107K ◐
across 2 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
India
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈12K | 13K rec. | 1 in 107K | 2.7K | Chakra | 32 |
| US United States | ≈1 | 61 rec. | 1 in 265M | — | Chakra | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | — | — | 8 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | 24 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | 20 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | — | — | 20 | — | — |
| KH Cambodia | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 12K people in India bear this name (about 1 in 107K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi9.8K81%
- English7126%
- Spanish3473%
- French3193%
- Arabic3163%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 9,790 | 81% |
| English | 712 | 6% |
| Spanish | 347 | 3% |
| French | 319 | 3% |
| Arabic | 316 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1935 | 4 |
| 1936 | 3 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1938 | 4 |
| 1939 | 2 |
| 1940 | 4 |
| 1941 | 3 |
| 1942 | 6 |
| 1943 | 3 |
| 1944 | 4 |
| 1945 | 4 |
| 1946 | 6 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 7 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 13 |
| 1953 | 11 |
| 1954 | 10 |
| 1955 | 9 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 9 |
| 1958 | 8 |
| 1959 | 16 |
| 1960 | 9 |
| 1961 | 17 |
| 1962 | 15 |
| 1963 | 16 |
| 1964 | 16 |
| 1965 | 14 |
| 1966 | 19 |
| 1967 | 12 |
| 1968 | 13 |
| 1969 | 15 |
| 1970 | 18 |
| 1971 | 23 |
| 1972 | 19 |
| 1973 | 15 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 11 |
| 1976 | 20 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 18 |
| 1979 | 17 |
| 1980 | 16 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 12 |
| 1984 | 16 |
| 1985 | 11 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 14 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 13 |
| 1990 | 11 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 12 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 2 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 72 years between 1921–2010. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nassib Abou Chakrab. 1909LBLebanese journalist and police officer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 373 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Chakra?
- We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Chakra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Chakra have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 12 thousand people bear Chakra in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled chakra.
- Where is Chakra most common?
- Chakra is densest in India, where we estimate about 1 in 107 thousand people carry it.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chakra”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.