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Position:Home>Genealogy> What are the most common Indian surnames (last names)?Question: What are the most common Indian surnames (last names)?FYI, I'm an American. The first family from India I met had the surname "Gupta." Since then, I've met a lot of Guptas, several Chopras and quite a few Ganeshes. Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Common Northern India Surnames: (Delhi, Haryana, Punjab,etc) Sharma Verma Gupta Malhotra Bhatnagar Saxena Kapoor, Kapur Singh Mehra Chopra Sarin Malik Common Eastern India surnames: (Bengal, Orrisa, etc.) Chatterjee Sen Bose Sengupta Das Dasgupta Banerjee Chattopadhyay Mukopadhyay Dutta Common Southern India surnames: (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, etc.) Nair (or Nayar) Pillai Rao Jayaraman Venkatesan Balasubramanium Subramanium Rangan Rangarajan Common Central India (Bihar/ Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, etc) Singh (Common for North also) Yadav Jhadav Jaiteley Chauhan Mistry Khan Common Western India surnames: (Maharashtra, Gujarat, etc) Shah Mehta Patel (Gujarati) Patil (Maharashtrian) Pawar, Powar Gavde Kadam Tambe Chavan D'souza, Lobo, Rodrigues, D'Costa (Goan/ Pondicherry surnames- Former Portugal Colonies in India) |