Indian Cast List

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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Yadamreddy
Yadhav or Yadav
Yalamanchili
Yarlagadda
Yesuraju
Yelimeli
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INDIAN CAST LIST

LIST OF ALL INDIAN SURNAMES (CAST SYSTEM)

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

Acharya = Priest & teacher.

Adiga = Priest from North Karnataka.

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

Ahuja - A descendant of Ahu.

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

Bandyopadhyay or Bandopadhyay = A respected teacher.

Banerjee - Teacher from the village of Bandoghat.

Bhat - Bhat/Butt = Priest or Scholar.

Bhattacharya = Priest & teacher.

Chakkalakkal or Chakalakal or Chakkalackal

Chattopadhyay -A teacher from the Chatta village in Bengal.

Chaturvedi - One who has learned all the four vedas.

Chopra - Descendants of warrior Chaupat Rai.

Deshpande - District accountant / head of region.

Dhawan = Messenger on the field of battle

Dubashi = Person who knows two languages, a Translator.

Dutta - Drived from Aditya or Sun.

also means grocer or pharmacist.

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

Gohil or Guhilot or Gahlot

Gowda - = Karnataka origin. Village headman.

Guha = Another name for Lord Kartikeya.

Guneta = People originally from Queta/Sind.

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

which means Noble.

Jha - Someone who recites from memory.

Johar = Sanskrit for Jewel.

Joshi - Practioner of Jyotish or astrology.

Kapoor or Kapur - Descendants of Moon.

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

Kaur = Princess. Punjabi sikh origin.

Khan = Turkish in origin. Means Chief/Ruler.

Khanna = Derived from Khanda (sword).

Mahajan = Literally means big People.

Makkad or Makkar (Punjabi)

Malik = Arabic word for King.

Mehra/Mehrotra = Descendants of Mihr (Sun).

Menon = Of Kerala origin, Accountants.

Mishra/Misra - Mishra = Mixed or blended.

Mukhopadhyay = Main Teacher.

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

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

Pakalomattam - in Malayalam script

Patel/Patil = Village headman.

Patel/Patil = Village headman.

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

Saini / Senawney = Head of army.

Shah or Shaha - Persian word for Monarch.

Singh = Derived from Sanskrit word Simha which means Lion.

Sinha = From the Sanskrit word Simha which means Lion.

Subramaniya or Subramania [3] or Subramonia

Tagore = Anglicised version of Thakur (Lord).