Around the world, Amitav (Amitav 
) is quite a common masculine first name. The first name Amitav is characteristic of Bangladesh, where it is quite a rare masculine name, India, where it is a rare boy's name, and the United States, where it is an extremely rare masculine name. Much less frequently, Amitav is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Amitav | Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, India, Bangladesh, United States |
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amitav acharya American academic of Indian descent, IN (b. 1962) |
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| amitav banerji (b. 1926) |
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| amitav mukherjee Ph.D. University of California, Irvine 2012 |
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| amitav sanyal researcher |
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| amitav bhattacharyya researcher |
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| amitav chakravarti professor of marketing at the London School of Economics and Political Science |
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| amitav mehra Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2000 |
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| amitav sahu researcher |
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| amitav mallik Defence technologist |
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