Chaminda
Meaning
a modern Sinhala coinage with no fixed dictionary meaning, and honestly so: astrologers assign an auspicious opening syllable from the child's birth chart (the nekata), so parents routinely coin fresh names around a prescribed sound; Chaminda, a 1970s-80s favorite, is that tradition at work, carried worldwide by fast bowler Chaminda Vaas
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Chaminda has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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