Cheriyan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃɝiiən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cheriyan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 254Kas Cherian(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 58K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1M
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 Cheriyan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
5,219 named Cherian
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cheriyan 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 | 5,219as Cherian | 1 in 254K | 5.2K | Cheriyan | 80 |
| US United States | 2,061as Cherian | 1 in 161K | 2.5K | Cheriyan | 95 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Cheriyan | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Cheriyan | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Cheriyan | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | 16as Cherian | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 14as Cherian | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | — |
5,219 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling cherian. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph CheriyanGBresearcher
- Jerry CheriyanUSresearcher
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 12 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3.2K | #214 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.8K | #3,334 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 282 | #73,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 205 | #90,113 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 151 | #108,734 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Cheriyan?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃɝiiən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Cheriyan have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Cherian, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Cheriyan?
- In India, the national register counted 5,219 people named Cherian, about 1 in 254 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cheriyanThe 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, “Cheriyan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.