Surnames
Common surnames are:
- Ayya or Aiah (Similar to Iyer (Iyer is the plural form of Ayya or Aiah. e.g. Laxminarayanappayya)
- Adhikari (e.g. Ramakrishna adhikaari)
- Hebbar (e.g. Ganesh Hebbar,Vasudeva Hebbar),
- Oja (Meaning Acharya. e.g. Maroja, Nattoja)
- Rao (e.g. janaka rao)
- Sharma (e.g.Laxmi Narayana Sharma)
- Shastry/Shastri (e.g. shishr Shastry)
- Upadhyaya (e.g. Venkataramana Upadhyaya)
- Shanbhag (or Shyanubhoug) (e.g. Mahesh Shanbhag)
- Bhat (e.g. sumangala Bhat)
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