Kayastha castes
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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.
[edit] UP, MP, Delhi
- Mathur
- Bhatnagar
- Srivastava
- Saxena
- Nigam
- Asthana
- Sinha
- Kulshreshtha
- Gaur
- Asthana
- Khare
- Verma/Varma
[edit] Bengal
- ghosh
- Bhadradhar
- Bhava
- Biswas
- Chandra
- Choudhury/Choudhary
- Das
- Dev
- Dey
- Dhar
- Dutta
- bose
- Gupta
- Guha
- Kar
- Majumdar
- Mitra
- Mullick
- Munshi
- Nag
- Nandy
- Nandan
- Nath
- Pal
- Palit
- Patwari
- Rakshit
- Roy (Ray)
- Saha
- Sarkar
- Sarbhan
- Sen
- Sinha
- Som
- Vaidya
- Varman
- Vishwasu
[edit] Orissa
- Patnaik
- Kanungo
- Das
- Mohanti
- Naidu
- mohanti
- Pataskar
[edit] Assam
- Bhuyan
- Dutta
- Mazumdar
- Choudhury
- Mahanta
- Baruah
- Chakravarty
- Baid
[edit] Madhya Pradesh
Please refer to UP, MP, Delhi (above)
[edit] Gujarat
- Chandraseni Kayastha Prabhu
- Mehta
- Vallabhji
- Balmiki
- Surajdhwaj
- Vallabhi
[edit] South India
- Mudaliar
- Naidu
- Reddy
- Bal
- Karnik
- Raman
- Rao
[edit] Goa, Daman, Diu
- Davane
- Keelen
- Pathare
[edit] Sindh Province
- Alim
- Fazil
- Qamil
- Advani
[edit] Surnames commonly used by Saxena
- Johry
- Hajela
- Adholia
- Raizada
- Kodesia
- Kanungo
- Bartariya
- Bisaria
- Pradhan
- Kamthania
- Darbari
- Rawat
- Saharia
- Dalela
- Sonreksha
- Kamojia
- Agochia
- Sinha
- Moria
- Johri
- Dureha
[edit] ALS commonly used by Mathurs
- Saharia
- Kataria
- Bhiwani
- Kakrania
- Dewariya
- Dilwariya
- Tawakaley
- Rajauria
- Nag
- Galgotia
- Sarwaria
- Andley (Endlay)
- Ranoria
- Kilokheria
- Barelia
- Jaleshree
[edit] Bhatnagar's main ALS
- Dasania
- Bhatania
- Kuchania
- Gujaria
- Bahliwal
- Hasiwal
- Mahiwal
- Sambhalwed
- Barsania
- Kanmaujia
(Total ALS are 84)
[edit] Common Nigam Surnames
- Kanungo
- Akbarpur
- Akbarabadi
- Kanungo ghatampuri
- Chaudhry
- Phaphund
- Kanungo badha
- Kanungo jaipur
- Munshi ghatampuri
[edit] Common Shrivastava Surnames
- Aghori
- Barwaria
- Beohar
- Choudhary
- Deogaon
- Jagdhari
- Kanungo
- Khare
- Lal
- Narain
- Panday
- Pandia
- Pradhan
- Prasad
- Rai
- Raizada
- Raja Sandeela
- Raja Surajpura
- Sahay
- Sarkar
- Sinha
- Srivastava, Shrivastava, Shrivastav
- Swarup
- Tandwa
- Unique family surnames: Bachchan, Shastri
- Vaidya
- Verma
'Sinha' and 'Verma' surnames are also common in other castes.
[edit] Bihar
Srivastava, Ambashtha, Karna, Mathur, Bhatnagar. Other surnames/ALS used are - Sinha, Pandeya, Pandia, Kanth, Das, Sahay, Samaiyar Gayasen, Verma, Kanth etc.
[edit] Punjab
- Govil
- Lahiri
- Hajela
- Raizada
- Vidyarthi
- Choudhary
- Johari
- Rawat
- Bisaria
- Sinha
- Nagpal
- Gotriy Kayastha
- Kashyap
- Bakshi
- Dutta
[edit] Rajasthan
- Gaur or ghosh
- Mathur
- Pacholi
- Srivastava Guttu
- Nandan
- Sarbhan
- Phuttu
- Mavekadanvas
- Sambhare
- Bhatnagar
- Shastri
- Prasad
[edit] Tamilnadu
- Tamil Canara
- Kayastha
- Naydu
[edit] Andhra Pradesh
- Telugu Kayasha
- Naidu
(Note: In Hyderabad, Kayasthas are in abundance and they are Mathurs, Srivastava, Nigams, Saxenas, etc as in North India. They are all Urdu speaking)
[edit] Maharashtra
Chandra Seniya Kayastha Prabhu(CKP) surnames used are:
- Thackeray
- Pathare
- Pathekar
- Karkhanis
- Pharnis
- Polanis
- Vanis
- Hazirnarsis
- Mokasi
- Chitnavis
- Kotnis
- Chitre
- Gupte
- Mathrey
- Deshpande
- Karore
- Donde
- Tamhane
- Dighe
- Sule
- Raje
- Sangle
- Mohite
- Tungare
- Kulkarni
- Shreedh
- Pradhan
- Jaywant
- Wamanraje
- Pharnase
- Apte
- Khyadya
- Gadkari
- Trivakraje
- Adhikari
- Samarth
- Dalvi
- Deshmukh
- Chowil
- Nadkar
- Dawalkar
- Sowankar
- Kulawkar
- Otarkar
- Kharulkar
- Kivalkar
- Medhekar
- Khadelkar
