Brahmin  World      

L A S T   N A M E S

  Indian last names based on caste (Iyengar for example) or profession (Vaidya)  are quite common, in addition to last names based on the town or city of origin as in USA.  Secular last names are also in usage and it is difficult in recent times  to identify a person’s caste by his name. Nevertheless there are certain,  exclusive  last  names used by Brahmins, a few  of which are:  

Andhra Sarma, Sastri, Somayajulu
Bengal  Banerjee, Bhattacharya
Bengal Chatterjee, Ganguli, Mukherjee
Bihar Jha, Mishra
Gujarat Bhatnagar, Pandya, Trivedi,
Gujarat Tiwari
Jammu and Kashmir Kar, Pandit, Sharma
Karnataka Adiga, Aithal, Bhat, Deshpande,
Karnataka  Hebbar, Iyer, Iyengar, Karanth
Karnataka  Somayaji, Sharma, Shastri
Karnataka  Bendre
Kerala Namboodari
Maharashtra Athavale, Bhat, Bhave, Datar,
Maharashtra  Datey, Deshpande, Dixit,
Maharashtra  Gokhale, Joshi, Pandit
Maharashtra  Patwardhan
Orissa Kanungo, Kar, Mishra, Satpati
Punjab Sharma
Rajasthan Sharma, Vyas
Tamilnad Iyer, Iyengar
Uttar Pradesh Chaturvedi, Dwivedi, Joshi, Mishra
Uttar Pradesh Sharma, Tripathi, Vajapayee