list of kayastha in India

[DHIRENDRA KARNA]

Kayastha SurnamesThe Kayastha Community in India is spread thin into
various states. The easiest identification is the last (surname) name.
However, over the period, many new names have evolved. We attempt,
here, to provide an exhaustive list of surnames etc. being used by
Kayasthas in various states {we’d like to put on record that the list
appearing hereunder may have some missing family names. We will
appreciate if the same is brought to the notice of this web-site so as
to make the information appearing herein concurrent and correct.}

North India UP, Delhi)
Srivastava, Mathur, Saxena, Bhatnagar, Nigam, Asthana, Kulshreshtha,
Gaur, Ambastha, Karna, Suradhwaja, Balmiki. (Last two are rarely
found)

Bengal:
Sen, Kar, Das, Palit, Saha, Dutt/Dutta, Bose, Ghosh, Pal, Dey. Ray,
Sarkar, Chudhry, Nag, Som, Mullick, Majumdar, Munshi, Roy, Chandra,
Guha, Vaidya, Nandy, Nandan, Sinha, Rakshit, Ankur, Nath, Biswas,
Dhar, Bhadra, Sarbhan, Varman, Bhava, Mitra, Gupta, Kundu, Bhadradhar,
Vishwasu, Dev, Adhikari, Patwari.

Orissa:
Patnaik, Kanungo, Das, Bihiyar, Mohanti, Naidu, Pataskar.

Assam:
Barva, Chakravarty, Baid, Mahanti.

Madhya Pradesh:
Srivastava(also Khare), Saxena, Gaur, Asthana, Khare.

Gujarat:
Chandraseni Kayastha Prabhu, Mehta, Vallabhji, Balmiki, Surajdhwaj, Vallabhi.

South India:
Mudaliar, Naidu, Pillai, Reddy, Bal, Karnik, Raman, Rao, Menon, Nair,
Nayyar, Raju.

Goa, Daman, Diu:
Davane, Keelen, Pathare.

Sindh Province:
Alim, Fazil, Qamil, Advani.
Some ALS commonly used by Saxena – Johry, Hajela, Adholia, Raizada,
Kodesia, Kanungo, Bartariya, Bisaria, Pradhan, Kamthania, Darbari,
Rawat, Saharia, Dalela, Sonreksha, Kamojia, Agochia, Sinha, Moria,
Johri

ALS commonly used by Mathurs are – Saharia, Kataria, Kakrania,
Dewariya, Dilwariya, Tawakaley, Rajauria, Nag, Galgotia, Sarwaria,
Andley(Endlay), Ranoria.

Bhatnagar’s main ALS are – Dasania, Bhatania, Kuchania, Gujaria,
Bahliwal, Mahiwal, Sambhalwed, Barsania, Kanmaujia, etc (Total ALS are
84).

Nigams have the following prominent ALS – Kanungo, Akbarpur,
Akbarabadi, Kanungo ghatampuri, Chaudhry, Phaphund, Kanungo badha,
Kanungo jaipur, Munshi ghatampuri, etc.

Shrivastavas common ALS are – Verma, Sinha, Aghori, Paday, Pandia,
Raizada, Kanungo, Jagdhari, Pradhan, Beohar, Raja Surajpura, Tandwa,
Vaidya, Barwaria, Choudhary, Raja Sandeela, Deogaon. It may be seen
that some ALS are been usaed b more than sub-sects of Kayasthas-
Verma, Sinha, Kanungo, Raizada, Choudhary. Now a days Sinhas or
Vermas are found in other castes also.
Bihar:
Srivastava, Ambashtha, Karna, Mathur, Bhatnagar. Other surnames/ALS
used are – Sinha, Pandeya, Pandia, Kanth, Das, Sahay, Samaiyar
Gayasen, Verma etc.

Punjab:
Govil, Lahiri, Hajela, Raizada, Vidyarthi, Choudhary, Johari, Rawat,
Bisaria, Sinha, Nagpal, Gotriy Kayastha, Kashyap, Bakshi, Dutta.

Rajasthan:
Gaur, Mathur, Pacholi, Srivastava Guttu, Nandan, Sarbhan, Phuttu,
Mavekadanvas, Sambhare, Bhatnagar, Shastri, Prasad.

Tamilnadu:
Tamil Canara, Kayastha, Naydu, Pilley, Menon.

Andhra Pradesh:
Telugu Kayasha, Naidu
(Note: In Hyderabad, Kayasthas are in abundance and they are Mathurs,
Srivastava, Nigams, Saxenas, etc as in North India. They are all Urdu
speaking)

Maharashtra:
Chandra Seniya Kayastha Prabhu(CKP) surnames used are – Thackeray,
Pathare, Pathekar, Karkhanis, Pharnis, Polanis, Vanis, Hazirnarsis,
Mokasi, Chitnavis, Kotnis, Chitre, Gupte, Mathrey, Deshpande, Karore,
Donde, Tamhane, Dighe, Sule, Raje, Sangle, Mohite, Tungare, Kulkarni,
Shreedh, Pradhan, Jaywant, Wamanraje, Pharnase, Apte, Khyadya,
Gadkari, Trivakraje, Adhikari, Samarth, Dalvi, Deshmukh, Chowil,
Nadkar, Dawalkar, Sowankar, Kulawkar, Otarkar, Kharulkar, Kivalkar,
Medhekar, Khadelkar, etc.