Bhattacharyya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu surname from Sanskrit bhatia + acarya ‘teacher’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Bhattacharyya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 55K(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.4Kas Bhattacharjee
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 28Kfew recordsas Bhattacharya
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bhattacharyya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 named Bhattacharjee, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bhattacharya in IN India, US United States, SG Singapore and 3 more and Bhattacharjee in BD Bangladesh, AO Angola.
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 surname from Sanskrit bhatia + acarya ‘teacher’.
Cited for this meaning 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)Bhattacharyya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #171 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | listed | Bhattacharjee | 66 |
| IN India | #212 | 24,058 | 1 in 55K | 24K | Bhattacharya | 224 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Bhattacharya | 9 |
| US United States | — | 1,661as Bhattacharya | 1 in 200K | 2.4K | Bhattacharya | 277 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Bhattacharjee | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Bhattacharya | 51 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Bhattacharya | 43 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Bhattacharya | 15 |
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)Bhattacharyya 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)- Aghor Chandra Kavyatirthab. 1872INnot in their usual nameBengali playwright
- Upendra Chandra Bhattacharyyab. 1933INIndian botanist (1933-2018)
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharjeeb. 1944INnot in their usual nameIndian politician (1944–2024)
- Archana Bhattacharyyab. 1948INIndian physicist
- Tapodhir Bhattacharjeeb. 1949INnot in their usual nameEx-Vice Chancellor of Assam University
- Gargi Bhattacharyyab. 1964GBsociologist, Professor of Sociology at University of East London
- Anindya Bhattacharyyab. 1970INIndian American technology instructor
- Anuradha Bhattacharyyab. 1975INpoet and writer from India
- Jhillik Bhattacharyab. 1994INIndian actress
- Ajay BhattacharyyaCACanadian record producer and songwriter
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 24K | #524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 960 | #26,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 647 | #34,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 447 | #45,149 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 165 | #2,628 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #4,755 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #117,745 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #3,265 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #1,583 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #4,993 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Bhattacharyya mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu surname from Sanskrit bhatia + acarya ‘teacher’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Bhattacharyya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Bhattacharjee in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bhattacharyya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bhattacharyya is densest in India — about 1 in 55 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bhattacharyya?
- In India, the national register counted 24,058 people named Bhattacharyya, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Bhattacharyya compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Bhattacharyya is the 171st most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bhattacharyyaThe 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, “Bhattacharyya” — the 171st most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.