Banerjee
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu Brahman name, literally ‘teacher from (the village of) Bandoghat’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bəˈnɝdʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Banerjee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 58K
- INIndia1 in 89K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
14,972 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hindu Brahman name, literally ‘teacher from (the village of) Bandoghat’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Banerjee counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #201 | 14,972 | 1 in 89K | 15K | Banerjee | 268 |
| BD Bangladesh | #508 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Banerjee | 42 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Banerjee | 26 |
| US United States | — | 2,723 | 1 in 122K | 4.4K | Banerjee | 320 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Banerjee | 107 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #857 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Banerjee | 63 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Banerjee | 108 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Banerjee | 48 |
14,972 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Banerjee is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Bengali.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gooroodas Banerjeeb. 1844INscholar (1844–1918)
- Surendranath Banerjeeb. 1848INIndian politician and scholar (1848–1925)
- Supriya Devib. 1933INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
- Victor Banerjeeb. 1946INIndian actor
- Mamata Banerjeeb. 1955INFormer Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Abhijit Banerjeeb. 1961INIndian American economist
- Rina Banerjeeb. 1963USAmerican painter (born 1963)
- Sushmita Banerjeeb. 1964INwriter, memoirist, women's rights activist
- Dibakar Banerjeeb. 1969INIndian film director
- Puja Banerjeeb. 1987INIndian television actress, Film actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 15K | #752 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.4K | #7,277 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.8K | #342 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,543 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,521 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Banerjee mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu Brahman name, literally ‘teacher from (the village of) Bandoghat’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Banerjee?
- A machine transcription gives /bəˈnɝdʒi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Banerjee have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Banerjee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled banerjee.
- How common is the name Banerjee?
- In India, the national register counted 14,972 people named Banerjee, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
- How common is Banerjee compared with other names?
- In India, Banerjee is the 201st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/banerjeeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Banerjee” — the 201st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.