In the world, Chettiar (Chettiar 
) is a very rare dominantly masculine, but infrequently girly given name. The first name Chettiar is characteristic of India, where it is an extremely rare dominantly masculine, but seldom feminine name, and China, where it is an extremely rare masculine name. Much more frequently, Chettiar is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Chettiar | South Africa, Mauritius, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, India |
| paduvar muththappa chettiar (b. 1767) |
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subramaniam chettiar journalist, IN (b. 1901) |
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| amm vellayan chettiar (b. 1905) |
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| angidi chettiar Acting President of Mauritius, Vice President of Mauritius, MU (b. 1928) |
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| dewan bahadur a. m. murugappa chettiar |
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