Ghoti People - Surnames

Surnames

Though most common surnames among Bengali Hindus are common to both Bangals and Ghotis, like Roy, Ghosh, Bosu, Chokroborty, Mukherji, Benarji/Bondopaddhay, Chatterjee/Chottopaddhay, Ganguly/Gonggopaddhay, Kar, Biswas, Sadhu, Shil, Sen, Saha, Sirkar/Sarkar, Das, Mondol, Saha, Majumdar, Dutto/Dutta, Talukder, Lahiri, Mitra/Mitter, Moitro/Maitra,Bagchi etc.

Some surnames are specific only to Ghotis and Edeshis, like Adak, Adhikary, Bagui, Bhaduri, Daffadar, Dandapat,Dolui, Gorai, Guin, Hazra, Hela, Jana, Karan, Karak, Karmakar, Kundu, Laha, Mahapatra, Maity, Middye, Modak, Nag, Nandi, Naskar, Nayak, Neogi, Paik, Pain, Pal, Panja, Patra, Sadhu, Sadhukhan, Samanta, Sardar, Sapui, Sasmal, She-al, Sinha, Tarafder, Topdar, Mihiracharyaa etc.

Similarly some surnames are particular to Bangals, like Bhuinya, Bhattacharjee(Bhottacharjo), Deb, Deb-nath,Deb-rai,De/Dey, Malakar, Nath, Guha, Guha-Thakurta, Gupto, Dasgupta, Lahiri(y), Sengupta, Shorma, Sil, Shil, Sheel, Shilsharma,Dash-Shorma, Deb-Shorma, Dash-Munshi, Munshi, Dewanji, Munshiji, Kannungo/Qannungoh, Mahalanobis, Kundu, Purakayastha/Purkait, etc.

Also, when two surnames are fused into one like RoyChoudhury, Sengupta, Duttagupta (not when a married woman combines her maiden and married surname), usually such surnames belong to only "Bangals".