Chowdhry
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃaʊdɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chowdhry is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname.
- NPNepal≈1 in 80as Chaudhary(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 104as Chowdhury
- QAQatar≈1 in 329as Chaudhary
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 Chowdhry 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #235 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600,000 named Chowdhury, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est., as Chaudhary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chaudhary in IN India, QA Qatar, AE United Arab Emirates and 1 more, Chowdhury in US United States, BD Bangladesh and Chaudhry in PK Pakistan.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chowdhry 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 | #11 | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 104 | 1.1K | Chowdhury | 192 |
| IN India | #40 | 878,401as Chaudhary | 1 in 1.5K | 878K | Chaudhary | 281 |
| NP Nepal | #900 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 80 | 3 | Chaudhary | 94 |
| PK Pakistan | #255 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 10 | Chaudhry | 119 |
| US United States | — | 11,961as Chowdhury | 1 in 28K | 19K | Chowdhury | 342 |
| QA Qatar | #15 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 329 | — | Chaudhary | 34 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #30 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Chaudhary | 74 |
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.; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; 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).
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)
- Salahuddin Quader Chowdhuryb. 1949BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi politician
- Ranjit Chowdhryb. 1955INIndian actor (1955–2020)
- Navin Chowdhryb. 1971GBBritish actor
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 492 | #46,623 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 379 | #54,418 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 341 | #1,565 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 267 | #68,782 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 153 | #21,343 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #81,780 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #3,066 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #8,718 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #8,749 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #33,051 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Chowdhry?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃaʊdɹi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Chowdhry have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 million people named Chowdhury in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Chowdhry?
- In India, the national register counted 878,401 people named Chaudhary, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Chowdhry compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Chowdhry is the 11th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chowdhry?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chowdhryThe 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, “Chowdhry” — the 11th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.