Choudhury
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Bengali
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃawduɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Choudhury is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
- INIndia1 in 4.1Kas Chowdhury
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 Choudhury 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
324,962 named Chowdhury
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, 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(measured from records)
A surname from Bengali.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Choudhury 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 | #672 | 324,962as Chowdhury | 1 in 4.1K | 325K | Choudhury | 233 |
| BD Bangladesh | #134 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 1.1K | Choudhury | 104 |
| US United States | — | 11,961as Chowdhury | 1 in 28K | 19K | Choudhury | 289 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Choudhury | 188 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Choudhury | 22 |
| SE Sweden | — | 831as Chowdhury | 1 in 12K | 831 | Choudhury | 25 |
| NO Norway | — | 786as Chaudhry | 1 in 7K | 786 | — | 10 |
| JM Jamaica | #415 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Choudhury | 1 |
324,962 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling chowdhury. 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; Bangladeshi name database containing surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency.; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
- A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhuryb. 1915BDnot in their usual nameBengali statesman, public servant and judge (1915–2001)
- Abu Sayeed Chowdhuryb. 1921BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi jurist and politician (1921–1987)
- Salil Chowdhuryb. 1925INnot in their usual nameIndian composer, poet and playwright (1925–1995)
- Mizanur Rahman Chowdhuryb. 1928BDnot in their usual nameformer Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1928-2006)
- Humayun Rasheed Choudhuryb. 1928BDBangladeshi diplomat (1928-2001)
- A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhuryb. 1932BDnot in their usual namePresident of Bangladesh from 2001 to 2002 (1930–2024)
- Supriya Devib. 1933INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
- Salahuddin Quader Chowdhuryb. 1949BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi politician
- Sarita Choudhuryb. 1966GBBritish actress
- Hamza Choudhuryb. 1997GBEnglish-Bangladeshi association football player (born 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Choudhury mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Bengali. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Choudhury?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃawduɹi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Choudhury have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 325 thousand people named Chowdhury, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Choudhury?
- In India, the national register counted 324,962 people named Chowdhury, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Choudhury compared with other names?
- In India, Choudhury is the 672nd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/choudhuryThe 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, “Choudhury” — the 672nd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.