Varghese
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Varghese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 51,703 people, counted by Instate. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Malayalam വർഗീസ് (vaṟgīsŭ).
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 19Kfew records
- INIndia1 in 26K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
51,703 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Borrowed from Malayalam വർഗീസ് (vaṟgīsŭ).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Varghese is found
(measured from records)Varghese 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 | — | 51,703 | 1 in 26K | 52K | Varghese | 227 |
| US United States | — | 7,013 | 1 in 47K | 8.7K | Varghese | 324 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #889 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Varghese | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Varghese | 16 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Varghese | 27 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Varghese | 47 |
51,703 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- George Vargheseb. 1960INAmerican computer scientist
- Serena Vargheseb. 1981USAmerican voice actress
- Abi VargheseINindian-American writer-director-producer
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Varghese mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Malayalam വർഗീസ് (vaṟgīsŭ). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Varghese?
- In the etymology graph, Jurek, Juro and Giorgino are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Geevarghese.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Varghese?
- In India, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Varghese, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled varghese. After it come United States, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Varghese?
- In India, the national register counted 51,703 people named Varghese, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Varghese compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Varghese is the 889th most common surname of 46,019 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vargheseThe 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, “Varghese” — ranked 302nd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.