INDIAN CAST LIST

LIST OF ALL INDIAN SURNAMES (CAST SYSTEM)

A

Aachrekar

Aargade

Aarella

Achari = Derived from Asari (Malayalam). Carpenters in profession.

Acharya = Priest & teacher.

Addagarla

Adiga = Priest from North Karnataka.

Agarkar

Agrawal or Agarwal or Aggarwal - Derived from Agarwala or 'a descendant from district
Agroha', ancient name of Hissar city. Agroha had 18 districts - Garg, Mangal, Kucchal, Goyan,
Goyal, Bansal, Kansal, Singhal, Jindal, Thingal, Airan, Dharan, Madhukul, Bindal, Mittal,
Tayal, Bhandal, and Naagal. All these surnames are synonymous with Agarwals.

Ahluwalia or Walia -A descendant from Ahlu, a village near Lahore.

Ahuja - A descendant of Ahu.

Ajagaonkar

Akkineni

Akurdikar

Alluri

Aluru

Alla

Allu

Amladi

Anam

Aneja

Angajala

Anumula

Arora - A descendant from Aror, today's Rohri in Sind.

Arulanandom

Asam

Asrani

Asthana

Athwani

Awaghan

Azad

Badaskar

Badgujar

Bairaju

Bagga

Baghel

Bagul

Bajaj

Bakland

Balakrishnan

Bandaru

Bandyopadhyay or Bandopadhyay = A respected teacher.

Banerjee - Teacher from the village of Bandoghat.

Bansal

Bapat

Baranwal

Bardeskar

Bedi

Beria

Bhartia

Bhadauria

Bhagat

Bhalla

Bhandari or Bhandaaris

Bhardwaj

Bhat - Bhat/Butt = Priest or Scholar.

Bhattacharya = Priest & teacher.

Bhati

Bhatia

Bhathheja

Bhave

Bhupathiraju

Bidawat

Bika

Birdi

Bojanapati

Bollepalli

Boppana

Buddharaju

Budwal

Bulusu (Bouloussou)

Bodapati

Chacko

Chaki

Chakraborty or

Chakravarthy

Chakkarapani

Champati

Champatiray

Champawat

Chapaneri

Charan

Chennamsetty

Chalasani

Challa

Chakkalakkal or Chakalakal or Chakkalackal

Chandola

Chary

Chatterjee or

Chattopadhyay -A teacher from the Chatta village in Bengal.

Chaturvedi - One who has learned all the four vedas.

Chaudhari or Chaudhary

Chauhan

Chekuri

Chhapola

Chhikara

Chinthalapati

Chitraju

Chopra - Descendants of warrior Chaupat Rai.

Choudhury or Chowdhury

Chugh

Chundawat

Dahale

Das

Dash

Dasari

Dashmukhe

Date

Datla

Dave

Dayal

Deengar

Deora or Dewra

Desai

Deshmukh

Deshpande - District accountant / head of region.

Devulapalli

Dewangan

Dhaliwal

Dhawan = Messenger on the field of battle

Dhekale

Dhoke

Dhundhara

Dixit

Donepudi

Doshi

Dua

Dubashi = Person who knows two languages, a Translator.

Dubey

Duggireddy

Dumra

Dundu

Dutta - Drived from Aditya or Sun.

Ekapure

Falodiya

Gadiraju

Gajjar

Ganapatiraju

Gandhi = From Sanskrit gandha which means perfume, perfume seller. In Gujarati the word

also means grocer or pharmacist.

Ganguly/Gangopadhyay

Garg

Gaudi

Gaur

Gautam

Gera

Ghadiyaram

Ghosh

Gilani

Gill = Lake/Moisture/Prosperity. Punjabi sikh origin.

Ginjupalli

Godavarthy

Gohil or Guhilot or Gahlot

Gokaraju

Gole

Gore

Gorde

Gounder

Govardhan

Gowarikar

Gowda - = Karnataka origin. Village headman.

Goyal or Goel

Grewal

Gujral

Guglani

Guha = Another name for Lord Kartikeya.

Guneta = People originally from Queta/Sind.

Gunnam

Gupta and Gupte - Ruler/Protector (today known as baniya / businessman).

Gurnani

Hada

Hakani

Hanchate

Hasija

Holkar

Hansda

Hegde

Hundal

Inda

Indukuri

Inampudi

Iyengar

Iragavarapu

Iyer - Derived from Tamil word Ayya which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word Arya

which means Noble.

J

Jadon

Jadhav

Jain - Follower of Jainism. Which is derived from Jina (one who overcomes).

Jajodia

Jalgaonkar

Jamir

Jampana

Janaswamy

Jasti

Jeldi

Jha - Someone who recites from memory.

Jindal

Jodha

Johar = Sanskrit for Jewel.

Jonnakuti

Jonnalagadda

Joshi - Practioner of Jyotish or astrology.

Josula

Juneja

Jethani

Kakkar- Strong.

Kakarala

Kadakia

Kadam

Kakulavaram

Kalavade

Kaldindi

Kale

Kamath

Kamboh

Kamboj

Kanagala

Kandhal

Kandula

Kanoongo

Kanduri

Kandpal

Kanumuri

Kantesaria

Kapadia

Kapoor or Kapur - Descendants of Moon.

Karadwal

Karanth

Karnik

Karamsot

Katakam

Katari

Kataria

Katoch

Kaul = Means well-born. Derived from Sanskrit word Kula.

Kaur = Princess. Punjabi sikh origin.

Kayala

Keshri

Khandelwal

Khangarot

Khare

Khan = Turkish in origin. Means Chief/Ruler.

Khanduja

Khanna = Derived from Khanda (sword).

Khanolkar

Khatri = Punjabi version of Kshatriya (ruler). Khanna, Kapoor, Seth, Mehra, Malhotra,
Chopra and Walia are all Khatris.

Khetarpal

Khokhani

Khosla

Kirtipati

Kocchar = Armour.

Kodali

Kodi

Kosaraju

Kottarathil

Kottieth

Koparde

Koya

Kulkarni

Kumar

Kunapuli

Kunala

Kuravi

Kurup

Kumpawat

Kunala

Kundra or Kunder

Kaligotla

Lal

Lally

Madala

Mahajan = Literally means big People.

Mahalingum

Maheshwari

Maingi

Makkad or Makkar (Punjabi)

Mandali

Manjrekar

Mallapur

Marathe

Maharaj

Mahecha

Malhan

Malik = Arabic word for King.

Malvade/Malwade

Manne

Manvatkar/Manwatkar

Mathure

Mittal

Meena

Mehta

Mehra/Mehrotra = Descendants of Mihr (Sun).

Menda

Menon = Of Kerala origin, Accountants.

Mevada

Mewada

Mhatre

Mikkilineni

Mishra/Misra - Mishra = Mixed or blended.

Mistry

Mittal

Modi

Motiani

Mukhopadhyay = Main Teacher.

Nagra

Nagrani

Naik

Nair, Nayar, Naik = Means leader, soldier. derived from Nayak.

Naithani

Nalamolu

Nalli

Nandigam

Naudiyal

Nalawade

Narula

Naskar

Nathawat

Nadella

Nehru = One who lives on the bank of a Nehr or canal.

Nelluri

Nishant

Olickal

Orethu

Padhi

Pagdala

Pai

Pakalomattam - in Malayalam script

Pal

Palande

Palani

Palepu

Palikriti

Paliwal

Panchal Luhar

Panda

Pande

Pandey

Pandher

Pandian

Pandit

Pandya

Panicker

Panigrahi

Pant

Paranjape

Parasher

Parekh

Parihar

Parikh

Pasi

Paswan

Patel/Patil = Village headman.

Pati

Patel/Patil = Village headman.

Patnaik

Patra

Pendse

Pillai - Pilla/Pillai = Young lad, son. Malayalam and Tamil origin.

Porwal

Patel

Punj

Purang

Qadri

Quazi

Ravipati

Raavi

Rai

Rajawat

Raju

Rakhit

Ram

Raman

Ramachandran

Rana or Ranawat - Ruler. Some speculate it's the male version of Rani.

Rand

Rane

Rao

Ray

Rathore

Rattan

Ratnakaram

Rallapalli

Rawal

Ravinuthala

Ravulapalli

Rawalot

Rawat

Reddy

Roy

Rudraraju

Rupnar

Sadhu

Saxena/Saksena

Sabharwal

Sachdeva/Sachdev

Sadasyula/Sadasya

Sagi

Saha

Sahai

Sahu

Saini / Senawney = Head of army.

Sahani/Sawhney

Samala

Sanghavi or Sanghvi

Sangwal

Sankathala

Sarbadhikari

Sastri or Shastri

Sati or Satti

Sayyapparaju

Sen

Sethi = Derived from Sanskrit word Sreshti (Merchant). Incidentally Shetty/Chettiar has the
same roots.

Sekhri

Shah or Shaha - Persian word for Monarch.

Sharma or Sarma - Hindu (Brahman) name from Sanskrit sarma means joy, shelter.

Shaktawat

Shekhawat

Shenoy

Shetty

Shinde

Shukla = Bright

Sidhu

Singh = Derived from Sanskrit word Simha which means Lion.

Singhal or Singal

Sinha = From the Sanskrit word Simha which means Lion.

Shishodia

Sokhal

Solankar

Solanki

Soni

Sridhara [2]

Srivastava/Shrivastava

Sayanakar

Sukumar

Sunkara

Sutaria

Suthar

Sawant

Subramaniya or Subramania [3] or Subramonia

Surathi

Surneni

Suguru

Swarup

Sehgal or Saigal

Tagore = Anglicised version of Thakur (Lord).

Talwar = Swordsman/Sword.

Tandon = Warrior or sun.

Tariang

Tavase or Tawase

Thachenkary

Thakur or Thakore

Thind

Thirumalaraju

Tiwari

Trivedi = Learned in 3 vedas.

Tyagi

Tirumalaraju

Uddaraju

Udyavar

Uniyal

Upadhyay

Uppal

Uppalapati

Uttara

Vadhri

Vadke

Vaidya

Vajipayajula

Valivarthi

Valladares

Vallampati

Vankayalapati

Varrier = Temple dwellers of Kerala origin.

Varma/Varman or Verma = Kshatriyas in South India. Affixed to the names of rulers.

Verma = Hindu name, from Sanskrit word varman which means armor, protection.

Vatsavai

Vegesana

Verghese- Derived from the Spanish surname Vargas

Viswanathan

Virmani

Wadke

Wagh

Waghe

Waghmare

Wagle

Wakde

Walawalakar

Waleed

Wajantri

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Yenugula

Yadamreddy

Yadhav or Yadav

Yalamanchili

Yarlagadda

Yesuraju

Yelimeli

Zambe