Chopra

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A surname from Punjabi

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/tʃəwpɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 31K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 50K

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)

18,819 people

Sources
312 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

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

United Arab Emirates, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A surname from Punjabi.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chopra 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 Chopra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#99618,8191 in 70K19KChopra254
CN China—≈15,000 est.≈1 in 94K—Chopra7
US United States—2,8971 in 115K3.7KChopra312
GB United Kingdom—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 50K—Chopra133
CA Canada—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 31K—Chopra113
AE United Arab Emirates#594≈980 est.≈1 in 10K—Chopra74
AU Australia—≈940 est.≈1 in 27K—Chopra120
SG Singapore—≈210 est.≈1 in 29K—Chopra45
BH Bahrain—≈52 est.≈1 in 29K—Chopra5

18,819 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chopra is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, India, Canada

    Also written Chôprà

  • Thai surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Thailand, United States, Canada

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written โจปรา, โชปรา

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Чопра

40 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Yash Chopra, b. 1932Prem Chopra, b. 1935Deepak Chopra, b. 1946Anupama Chopra, b. 1967Aditya Chopra, b. 1971Uday Chopra, b. 1973Priyanka Chopra, b. 1982Michael Chopra, b. 1983Parineeti Chopra, b. 1988Neeraj Chopra, b. 1997

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)

Formalआदरणीय Chopra जी,Respected Chopra ji, (English)
Informalआदरणीय Chopra जी,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Chopra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—19K#638
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—16K#87
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.7K#8,531
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.9K#10,979
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.8K#14,857
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—101#22,661
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—38#1,771
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—11#13,691
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—7#5,885
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—6#4,967
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#4,993
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

What does the name Chopra mean, and where does it come from?
A surname from Punjabi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Chopra?
A machine transcription gives /tʃəwpɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Chopra have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Chopra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chopra.
How common is the name Chopra?
In India, the national register counted 18,819 people named Chopra, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
How common is Chopra compared with other names?
In India, Chopra is the 996th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Chopra” — the 996th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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