India is a huge country with a ton of variety. Variety in cultures, languages, dialects, traditions, ethnicity, cuisine, life-styles, landscapes and much more. With a population of more than 1.3 Billion, you can of course also expect a huge variety of names and surnames originating from this beautiful country. In the last couple of months, that is exactly what we’ve been researching on – The most popular and the most common surnames in India ! And based on our research, YLists is glad to present this list of 100 Most Popular/Common Indian Surnames:
Rank | Surnames | Count in Thousands | |
1 | Singh | 36058 | |
2 | Kumar | 31014 | |
3 | Sharma | 28540 | |
4 | Aggarwal | 11950 | |
5 | Das | 10485 | |
6 | Kaur | 10382 | |
7 | Nath | 7700 | |
8 | Goel | 7230 | |
9 | Bhatt | 7070 | |
10 | Yadav | 7061 | |
11 | Suri | 6680 | |
12 | Kapoor | 6530 | |
13 | Chandra | 6450 | |
14 | Patel | 6430 | |
15 | Ali | 5797 | |
16 | Verma | 5780 | |
17 | Malhotra | 4840 | |
18 | Khan | 4442 | |
19 | Rana | 4050 | |
20 | Raman | 4030 | |
21 | Subramanian | 4020 | |
22 | Mehta | 3980 | |
3 | Patil | 3777 | |
4 | Sethi | 3640 | |
5 | Roy | 3436 | |
6 | Malik | 3430 | |
7 | Narayan | 3330 | |
8 | Ray | 3323 | |
9 | Mittal | 3110 | |
30 | Sheikh | 2918 | |
31 | Chaudhary | 2890 | |
32 | Sahu | 2832 | |
33 | Gupta | 2731 | |
34 | Nigam | 2730 | |
35 | Mahato | 2531 | |
36 | Burman | 2500 | |
37 | Begum | 2477 | |
38 | Sen | 2470 | |
39 | Parmar | 2369 | |
40 | Ansari | 2291 | |
41 | Manohar | 2270 | |
42 | Sehgal | 2180 | |
43 | Nayak | 2173 | |
44 | Uddin | 2170 | |
45 | Rathod | 2141 | |
46 | Saini | 2140 | |
47 | Jadhav | 2111 | |
48 | Ghosh | 2103 | |
49 | Sarkar | 2014 | |
50 | Mehra | 1890 | |
51 | Puri | 1820 | |
52 | Paswan | 1810 | |
53 | Mishra | 1807 | |
54 | Muthu | 1790 | |
55 | Gandhi | 1780 | |
56 | Thakur | 1742 | |
57 | Chauhan | 1740 | |
58 | Biswas | 1722 | |
59 | Saxena | 1700 | |
60 | Swami | 1660 | |
61 | Ahamad | 1636 | |
62 | Pawar | 1623 | |
63 | Chauhan | 1619 | |
64 | Naik | 1567 | |
65 | Pradhan | 1560 | |
66 | Dhawan | 1550 | |
67 | D’souza | 1550 | |
68 | Joshi | 1540 | |
69 | Kulkarni | 1540 | |
70 | Nagpal | 1540 | |
71 | Mahajan | 1470 | |
72 | Dutta | 1460 | |
73 | Narang | 1440 | |
74 | Shinde | 1388 | |
75 | Samuel | 1370 | |
76 | Tyagi | 1370 | |
77 | Srivastava | 1360 | |
78 | Fernandes | 1260 | |
79 | Rastogi | 1250 | |
70 | Srivastav | 1240 | |
81 | Raut | 1219 | |
82 | Jindal | 1200 | |
83 | Nath | 1190 | |
84 | Sardar | 1188 | |
85 | Patra | 1130 | |
86 | Shah | 1044 | |
87 | Jha | 1019 | |
88 | Jain | 976 | |
89 | Mohammed | 969 | |
90 | Kamble | 967 | |
91 | Soren | 958 | |
92 | Pandit | 950 | |
93 | Pandey | 934 | |
94 | Solanki | 903 | |
95 | Pathan | 897 | |
96 | Hussain | 890 | |
97 | Nair | 881 | |
98 | Gayakwad | 840 | |
99 | More | 783 | |
100 | Iyengar | 600 |