Chetry

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Chetry is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 37Kas Chetri(measured from records)
  • NPNepal≈1 in 10K
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.7M

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 Chetry 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)

35,857 named Chetri

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
83 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Nepal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ChetryLatin(measured from records)
ЧетриCyrillic(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)

Chetry 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.

Where Chetry is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India35,857as Chetri1 in 37K36KChetry83
NP Nepal≈3,000 est.≈1 in 10K2Chetry12
US United States752as Chhetri1 in 442K2.7KChetry42
ID Indonesia≈160 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Chetry2
PL Poland149as Chhetri1 in 257K136——
NO Norway140as Chhetri1 in 39K140—1
DK Denmark121as Chhetri1 in 49K121——
FI Finland78as Chhetri1 in 71K78——

35,857 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling chetri. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chetry is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, France, United States

    Languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Chétry, Chëtry

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Chetry have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Chetri, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Chetry?
In India, the national register counted 35,857 people named Chetri, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.

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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, “Chetry”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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