Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Kayastha surnames

The Kayastha Community in India is spread thin into various states. The easiest identification is the last (surname) name. However, over the period, many new names have evolved. 
We attempt, here, to provide an exhaustive list of surnames etc. being used by Kayasthas in various states {we’d like to put on record that the list appearing here under may have some missing family names. We will appreciate if the same is brought to the notice of this web-site so as to make the information appearing herein concurrent and correct.}

 List of North Indian Kayasthas (Native to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar)
  1. Srivastava
  2. Mathur
  3. Saxena
  4. Bhatnagar
  5. NIgam
  6. Asthana
  7. Gaur
  8. Karna
  9. Suradhwaja
  10. Balmiki
List of Orissa and Assam Kayasthas (Native to Orrisa and Assam)

  1. Patnaik
  2. Kanungo
  3. Bihiyar
  4. Mohanti
  5. Naidu
  6. Pataskar
  7. Barva
  8. Chakravarty
  9. Baid
  10. Mahanti/Mohanty

 List of Maharashtra surname (Native to various regions of Maharashtra)

  1. Chandra Seniya  
  2. Thackeray
  3. Pathare
  4. Pathekar
  5. Karkhanis
  6. Pharnis
  7. Polanis
  8. Vanis
  9. Hazirnarsis
  10. Mokasi
  11. Chitnavis
  12. Kotnis
  13. Chitre
  14. Gupte
  15. Mathrey
  16. Deshpande
  17. Karore
  18. Donde
  19. Tamhane
  20. Dighe
  21. Sule
  22. Raje
  23. Sangle
  24. Mohite
  25. Tungare
  26. Kulkarni
  27. Shreedh
  28. Pradhan
  29. Jaywant
  30. Wamanraje
  31. Pharnase
  32. Apte
  33. Khyadya
  34. Gadkari
  35. Trivakraje
  36. Adhikari
  37. Samarth
  38. Dalvi
  39. Deshmukh
  40. Chowil
  41. Nadkar
  42. Dawalkar
  43. Sowankar
  44. Kulawkar


 List of Bengali Kayastha Surnames (Native to West Bengal)
  1. Tar
  2. Ghora/ Ghorai/ Ghorami
  3. Kuila
  4. Hati
  5. Dinda
  6. Simlai, 
  7. Kuiree
  8. Piri/ Paria
  9. Bala
  10. Malakar/ Mal
  11. Pranam
  12. Bhokto/ Bhakto
  13. Mol/ Mal
  14. Panja
  15. Hatyal/ Hatial
  16. Pramanik
  17. Shrongi/ Shorongi
  18.  Mejia
  19. Ghoshmaulik
  20. Shit
  21. Kanra
  22. Sau
  23. Chon
  24. Lodh
  25. Sutradhar/ Sutrodhor
  26. Khawas/Khaoas
  27. Sui
  28. Paira
  29. Paniya
  30. Doripa
  31. Maschatak
  32. Bishal
  33. Kunjal
  34. Kangshabani/Kongsoboni/Kangsoboni/Kongshoboni
  35. Kanjal
  36. PaRu
  37. Chatai
  38. Midda
  39. Samajpoti/Samajpati
List of South Indian Kayastha Surname (Native to Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh only)

  1. Mudaliar
  2. Naidu
  3. Pillai
  4. Reddy
  5. Bal
  6. Karnik
  7. Raman
  8. Rao
  9. Menon
  10. Nair
  11. Nayyar
  12. Raju
  13. Naydu
  14. Pilley
  15. Menon
  16. Kayasha
List of Daman Diu/ Goa, Kayastha Surname

  1. Davane
  2. Keelen
  3. Pathare
List of Punjab Kayastha Surname (Native to Punjab)
  1. Govil
  2. Lahiri
  3. Hajela
  4. Raizada
  5. Vidyarthi
  6. Choudhary
  7. Johari
  8. Rawat
  9. Bisaria
  10. Sinha
  11. Nagpal
  12. Gotriy Kayastha
  13. Kashyap
  14. Bakshi
  15. Dutta
List of Rajasthan Kayastha Surname (Native to Rajasthan only and not Gujrat)

  1. Gaur
  2. Mathur
  3. Pacholi
  4. Srivastava Guttu
  5. Nandan
  6. Sarbhan
  7. Phuttu
  8. Mavekadanvas
  9. Sambhare
  10. Bhatnagar
  11. Shastri
  12. Prasad
List of Madhya Pradesh Kayastha Surname (Native to M.P)

  1. Srivastava(also Khare)
  2. Saxena
  3. Gaur
  4. Asthana
  5. Khare
List of Gujrat Kayastha Surname (Native to Gujrat)

  1. Chandraseni Kayastha Prabhu
  2. Mehta
  3. Vallabhji
  4. Balmiki
  5. Surajdhwaj
  6. Vallabhi
Please note that this is not an entirely exhaustive list but all the new surnames and very rare surnames have been covered. This has been cross checked with multiple government registries/ papers/sites.
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74 comments:

  1. ANCHAL BHATNAGARMay 20, 2018 at 12:14 PM

    Commendable job.

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  2. UnknownAugust 15, 2018 at 10:12 PM

    Ok

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  3. UnknownSeptember 6, 2018 at 12:24 PM

    Great effort,Anil Saxena

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  4. Annu SrivastavaSeptember 9, 2018 at 5:21 AM

    Nice

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  5. UnknownSeptember 21, 2018 at 7:41 AM

    Special thanks to you for this noble work

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  6. UnknownOctober 31, 2018 at 2:32 AM

    where are the Dutta's???

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  7. UnknownNovember 2, 2018 at 10:39 AM

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  8. UnknownNovember 2, 2018 at 10:41 AM

    Sawant/ambasth/kulshreshth/sinha is missing ...north indian

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  9. UnknownNovember 10, 2018 at 2:47 AM

    Where is malhoMal ?

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  10. UnknownNovember 10, 2018 at 2:49 AM

    Where is Malhotra's

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  11. UnknownNovember 28, 2018 at 5:50 AM

    Whether Galgotia are Kayastha

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  12. UnknownDecember 1, 2018 at 10:09 AM

    Please suggest surname is sahay belongs to which cast.

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    1. UnknownMarch 12, 2019 at 5:13 AM

      Sahay is also kayasth surname

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    2. Sanjay SinhaApril 7, 2019 at 9:18 AM

      Sahay belongs to Ambastha kyastha native of Bihar.

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    3. VivekOctober 21, 2019 at 10:56 PM

      No...also Srivastav kayastha use surname SAHAY

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    4. RICHAOctober 6, 2020 at 3:25 AM

      SAHAY is used by SRIVASTAVA KAYASTHA. My forefathers used to write Sahay with their names.

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  13. UnknownDecember 1, 2018 at 10:11 AM

    Please suggest me surnames Sahay is belongs to which cast

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  14. UnknownDecember 22, 2018 at 12:33 PM

    Where are Majumder, Dutta, Roy, Kundu, Bhowmick, Sarkar, Paul etc. in Bengali catagory?

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  15. UnknownDecember 26, 2018 at 12:20 AM

    Lot of Bengali Surnames like Guha , Mitra, Ghosh, De, etc are missing. This is awful.

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  16. AnonymousDecember 27, 2018 at 8:12 PM

    Bengali surnames eg. Dey, Dutta, Guha, Mitra, Ghosh, Sen, Kar is not listed

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  17. vishFebruary 9, 2019 at 12:11 PM

    Ambastha in bihar are in very large numbers specially in magadh region. They are missing in the list.

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  18. UnknownFebruary 11, 2019 at 10:03 PM

    Who has made this Bengali Kayastha surname list?? Where are kulin Kayastha surnames like Ghosh, Bose, Mitra and Guha?? Correct it ASAP.

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  19. UnknownMarch 15, 2019 at 7:53 PM

    Fantastic

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    1. UnknownMarch 17, 2019 at 6:06 AM

      Apart from Rajasthan & Shimla District, Himachal Pradesh, Bhatnagars also hail from Punjab particularly from Chandigarh & Ambala

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  20. Atul kumar SrivastavaMarch 20, 2019 at 3:45 AM

    Sinha is missing

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  21. UnknownMarch 24, 2019 at 3:27 AM

    None of the above surnames belongs to bengali kayasth.Writer has no information regarding this.

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  22. Sanjay SinhaMay 2, 2019 at 3:19 AM

    Whether Adekar in Maharashtra are kyastha surname ?

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  23. NeerajMay 13, 2019 at 8:23 PM

    Sahai can be from both UP and Bihar . And are Srivastava

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  24. UnknownMay 26, 2019 at 11:21 AM

    Raizada kayasth are also in uttar pradesh..

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  25. UnknownAugust 21, 2019 at 12:50 AM

    I came across the following Kayastha Surnames
    1. Lal - Bihar
    2. Verma - Bihar
    3. Pershad - Bihar
    4. I know about Andhra Pradesh. I doubt any kayasthas are with surname as Reddy, Rao or Raju. Reddy is a powerful political and farming community and they cannot be considered as Kayasthas. Rao is a very common name does not indicate any community or sect All communities have this name. Raju is commonly used by Kshatriyas but a few persons from other communities also use as Raju.

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  26. UnknownOctober 9, 2019 at 8:13 AM

    I have doubts about Nair and Pillai being in kayastha community in Tamil Nadu. First, they are from Kerala and secondly not kayastha. Please verify.

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    1. UnknownApril 2, 2021 at 12:58 AM

      Tamilnadu kayastha means issai vellalar, maruthuvar.kerala ezhavathi, kavutheeya,vadya.

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  27. UnknownOctober 10, 2019 at 9:39 AM

    Tamil nadu kayasthas are only Karuneegar caste not others

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  28. UnknownOctober 10, 2019 at 9:42 AM

    one who is worship Chitragupta Ji maharaj (believe descendants) should call Kayastha. so Karuneegar is Kayastha strictly not other caste from Tamilnadu

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  29. UnknownOctober 24, 2019 at 1:47 PM

    Bihiyar , nandu, patsakar , chakarvarty and mohanti and mahanty does not belong to oriya karanas it's completely wrong the title spelling is mohanty and other two with ending in I and starting with MA belongs to different castes. First get it all
    Even in bengali kayasthas you mixed all reli and sonar and every caste title's. Only five Ghosh, Guha , Bose ,Basu and some sarkar not all belongs to it and some Datta not Dutta are actually kayasthas. Sarkar also belongs to other castes and do also Datta. You have put the titles of different obc and sc and st together in kayasthas list first correct it.

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  30. the job mongerOctober 29, 2019 at 10:35 AM

    BISARIA AND BARTARIA ARE ALSO THE KYASTHA IN WESTERN UTTAR PRADESH

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  31. UnknownDecember 22, 2019 at 5:54 AM

    Among Rajasthan kayastha Shastri is acemedic degree not kayastha surname

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    1. UnknownAugust 20, 2020 at 1:34 AM

      In bihar many kayastha Srivastava use this surname (shastri)

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  32. UnknownJanuary 18, 2020 at 7:37 AM

    Why enlisting of particular caste identity? When we Indians rise above this and respect merits of individual

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  33. UnknownApril 4, 2020 at 5:02 PM

    Karnatka surname

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  34. AnonymousApril 8, 2020 at 12:54 AM

    What a threash and chutiye you all are to divide the people into bloods, community, caste,creed, religions, rich, poor, black, white, educated uneducated, all types of discrimination. RASCISTS IINDIAN ARE 3RD GRADE AND 3RD CLASS PEOPLE

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  35. UnknownApril 9, 2020 at 6:27 AM

    Maharashtra misses a surname....Jamadar

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  36. UnknownApril 9, 2020 at 6:28 AM

    how may I access the database of the surname Nadkar of Maharashtra?

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  37. UnknownApril 9, 2020 at 6:40 AM

    my name is Omar Ebrahim Nadkar and I'm a member of the South African generation of Nadkars. We are descendant from a little village called Sunglot on the mountains close ot Khed, Maharashtra. I have taken on the task of compiling our family tree and I have encountered a few dead-ends. does anyone know how I may access a database of the Nadkar family in any way or perhaps recommend other avenues I may pursue. I will appreciate it. sincerely, Omar.

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  38. Prateek ArgalApril 30, 2020 at 5:10 AM

    Argal????

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  39. UnknownJuly 12, 2020 at 10:39 PM

    As per government data kayastha not in gujarat or not..

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  40. Backstreet boyAugust 10, 2020 at 10:32 PM

    Where is Barua

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  41. UnknownAugust 11, 2020 at 12:27 AM

    Kulshrestha is missing in the list.
    Please take extra precaution when prepare. This is count as document in future and also it is help kids to pass correct information.
    Need to remember half knowledge bis dangerous for any one .
    Continue doing but take comments as challenge.

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  42. UnknownJanuary 13, 2021 at 11:24 PM

    Great effort. Most of the comments given above seem to be correct like Ambastha not being mentioned in Bihar and Ghosh, Datta, Bose and Sarkar in Bengal. Corrections need to be done taking these recommendations.

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  43. UnknownJanuary 16, 2021 at 8:24 AM

    You should also add the surname "mahanta" in the assam section.
    mohanti,mahanti is there but 'mahanta' is missing

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  44. ArunFebruary 2, 2021 at 9:38 AM

    I think in south india only karuneegar or karan or karnam are only kayasthas . They are karna kayastha. Naidu , pillai , mudaliyar caste people are different i think 🤔. Author sir can you please tell me how naidu and other south castes belongs to kayastha ?? Please reply me sir 👍🏼

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  45. SumanJune 12, 2021 at 6:58 PM

    Where is the Suman ?

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  46. SumanJune 12, 2021 at 6:59 PM

    Where is the Suman

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  47. Affomarket Deals & OffersNovember 12, 2021 at 10:46 PM

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  48. Affomarket Deals & OffersNovember 12, 2021 at 10:47 PM

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  49. Affomarket Deals & OffersNovember 12, 2021 at 10:49 PM

    Sir both Chakraborty and Samajpati are brhamin titles. My title is Samajpati and I am brhamin. Also my grandfather title is Chakraborty he is also brhamin.

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    1. JayAugust 30, 2024 at 4:29 AM

      Are you belong SC caste i think they are SC caste please tell me ?

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  50. Trsh PaikNovember 23, 2021 at 2:21 AM

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  51. Trsh PaikNovember 23, 2021 at 2:23 AM

    In Odisha the Surnames of Kayastha are
    PATNAIK,MOHANTY,DAS,KANUNGO,BOHIDAR

    G.R.Patnaik

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  52. AnonymousNovember 26, 2021 at 4:08 AM

    Which caste is Bartarya (from varanasi)?

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  53. progres5March 28, 2022 at 6:56 AM

    thank you

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  54. DhayantraJanuary 12, 2024 at 10:36 AM

    Bhuyan, Kalita?

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  55. sdas259March 10, 2024 at 12:46 AM

    bengali kayastha surnames are completely wrong

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