Surnames of Brahmins

What are typical surnames of Brahmins?

There are many Brahmin surnames. They are

1. Sharma.

2. Pandit.

3. Pandey.

4. Hegde.

5. Bhat or Bhatt.

6. Kulkarni surname will be held by some Brahmins in Karnataka and Maharashtra. Even some Kayasthas in Maharashtra will have this surname.

7. Kamath or Kamat.

8. Karanth.

9. Shenoy.

10. Joshi.

11. Deshpande.

12. Marathis having -kar at the end, for example Tendulkar, Gavaskar etc. They are all Brahmins.

13. Iyer or Iyengar.

14. Namboothiris in Kerala.

15. Mishra.

16. Tripathi.

17. Tiwari or Tiwary.

18. Trivedi.

19. Dwivedi.

20. Chaturvedi.

21. Dubey.

22. Chaubey.

23. Banerjee or Bandhopadhyay.

24. Mukherjee or Mukhyopadyay.

25. Chatterjee or Chattopadhyay.

26. Ganguly or Gangopadhyay.

27. Shastri or Shastry at some places.

28. Among Rao community, some will be Brahmins who are mostly in Karnataka. For example, Kannada actor Upendra Rao is a Brahmin, Politician in Karnataka Dinesh Gundu Rao is a Brahmin. In many other states, Rao community belongs to other castes.

29. Some of them in Bharadwaj community are Brahmins.

30. Kashyap.

31. Devgan.

32. Dutt.

33. Satpathy.

34. Pandya.

35. Panda surname.

36. Adiga.

37. Acharya.

38. Agnihotri.

39. Upadhyay.

40. Raina.

41. Jha.

42. Bhattacharya or Bhattacharjee.

43. Vajpayee or Bajpai.

44. Shukla.

45. Chakraborty.

46. Goswami.

These are some of the Brahmin surnames.