27 Dec 2007

The most popular Hindu last names according to Yahoo Search

I used this as the seed, and then computed the search result count for each name using the Yahoo Web Services.

NameResults
Das1,130,000,000
Sen151,000,000
Roy138,000,000
Dev134,000,000
Singh43,800,000
Gill34,800,000
Rao31,000,000
Kumar30,200,000
Modi30,100,000
Shah27,800,000
Bose24,300,000
Patel17,400,000
Gupta14,800,000
Reddy10,400,000
Mehta8,090,000
Saha7,220,000
Dey6,950,000
Mittal6,520,000
Dixit6,510,000
Sonde6,400,000
Goud6,130,000
Nair5,970,000
Sarai5,650,000
Joshi5,650,000
Ghosh5,500,000
Babu5,160,000
Raju5,000,000
Desai4,890,000
Iyer4,760,000
Pandit4,690,000
Mukherjee4,640,000
Mishra3,900,000
Banerjee3,890,000
Balan3,880,000
Menon3,850,000
Ganguly3,740,000
Shetty3,710,000
Verma3,640,000
Wali3,340,000
Patil3,340,000
Dutta3,320,000
Kaur3,210,000
Chatterjee3,130,000
Sarkar2,800,000
Srivastava2,750,000
Murthy2,730,000
Nadar2,570,000
Yadav2,560,000
Naidu2,560,000
Kulkarni2,460,000
Iyengar2,440,000
Bhattacharya2,430,000
Bhatt2,360,000
Agrawal2,340,000
Acharya2,250,000
Kaul2,120,000
Raina2,100,000
kaushal2,060,000
Prabhu1,940,000
Aggarwal1,840,000
Khalsa1,820,000
Dasgupta1,790,000
Thakur1,760,000
Brar1,740,000
Negi1,730,000
Chauhan1,710,000
Bhat1,690,000
Mistry1,680,000
Sarma1,610,000
Teja1,600,000
Shasthri1,580,000
Pillai1,520,000
Goyal1,420,000
Bansal1,390,000
Kamei1,390,000
Oza1,380,000
Dubey1,320,000
Deshpande1,310,000
Dhar1,290,000
Sandhu1,210,000
Sidhu1,160,000
Trivedi1,150,000
Parikh1,100,000
Gire1,090,000
Badal1,070,000
Wani1,040,000
Deshmukh1,010,000
Varghese991,000
Jaitley989,000
Dhillon957,000
Walia922,000
Borah881,000
Kamath865,000
Shenoy804,000
Gowda788,000
Undre762,000
Kurup750,000
Solanki722,000
Dolma706,000
Chaturvedi683,000
Sahu642,000
Sastry639,000
Hegde629,000
Cheema622,000
Patnaik614,000
Shinde595,000
Barua573,000
Raut557,000
Chavan532,000
Kadam492,000
Chacko481,000
Dwivedi477,000
Matondkar428,000
Karnik411,000
Ogra387,000
Jadhav368,000
Nambiar356,000
Agarkar353,000
Koul338,000
Setty324,000
Shergill309,000
Gabbi306,000
Dikshit289,000
Poddar281,000
Gothe277,000
Chakpram260,000
Haldar253,000
Gogoi242,000
Baruah238,000
Asthana226,000
Devar223,000
Bhonsle200,000
Dorjee196,000
Dalvi192,000
Kuruvilla190,000
Scindia173,000
Bhutia172,000
Ghate151,000
Chowdary149,000
Naicker147,000
Borkar134,000
Gounder112,000
Bhosale94,000
Parkar89,600
Chautala85,700
Kotadia82,900
Bagal82,800
Sutaria80,700
Nishad74,800
Tickoo73,300
Bhoi67,000
Oinam66,400
Dullo64,900
Dastidar59,300
Katkar57,200
Chetri56,500
Boparai51,800
Beniwal48,500
Handhe31,700
Vanniyar20,300
Mulye17,900
Kaskar15,500
Chishty15,000
Mudaliyar14,200
Mulge14,100
Handoo13,700
Ganjoo11,900
Landge11,800
Sonkar11,700
Mukaddam10,400
Hegede8,280
Dewangan6,160
Pipalia5,120
Penkar4,780
Chandrakar4,490
Khandke3,230
Benipal2,880
Borkakoti2,830
Shikhare2,540
Kyada2,460
Bunha2,230
Sheladia2,210
Bhinge1,980
Dhaduk1,440
Sungte1,420
Rawoot1,040
Agharia1,020
Khalfe712
Dhonsi700
Ahanthem635
Gantare632
Birnale629
Mapkar462
Makavana354
Kaamat335
Wasgare127
Loliyekar30
Nakhtare13
Jhombarkar8