Chowdary
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chowdary is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 414K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 1.4M
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 70K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Chowdary 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 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Chowdary | 20 |
| IN India | 974 | 1 in 1.4M | 974 | Chowdary | 165 |
| US United States | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 414K | listed | Chowdary | 159 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Chowdary | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 634K | — | Chowdary | 43 |
| AU Australia | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 371K | — | Chowdary | 40 |
| SG Singapore | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Chowdary | 9 |
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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
- Syed Nawab Ali Chowdhuryb. 1863BDnot in their usual nameNawab of Dhanbari of Tangail in East Bengal (1863-1929) (r. 1911-1929)
- 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)
- Badrul Haider Chowdhuryb. 1925BDnot in their usual nameChief Justice of Bangladesh
- Mizanur Rahman Chowdhuryb. 1928BDnot in their usual nameformer Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1928-2006)
- A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhuryb. 1932BDnot in their usual namePresident of Bangladesh from 2001 to 2002 (1930–2024)
- Abdul Gaffar Choudhuryb. 1934BDnot in their usual namewriter from Bangladesh
- Zafrullah Chowdhuryb. 1941BDnot in their usual namePhysician & Co-ordinator, Gonoshasthaya Kendra
- Salahuddin Quader Chowdhuryb. 1949BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.2K | #1,747 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 974 | #5,610 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 58 | #5,400 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #3,663 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #1,261 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #7,657 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #4,993 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #5,168 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Chowdary have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Chowdary in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chowdary.
- How common is the name Chowdary?
- In India, the national register counted 974 people named Chowdary, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chowdaryThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Chowdary”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.