Chakraborty
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃakɹəbɔɹti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chakraborty is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Bangladesh it is the 72nd most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 216K
- INIndia1 in 6.1Kas Chakraborti
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 Chakraborty 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)
- #628 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
217,153 named Chakraborti
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chakrabarti in CN China and Chakravorty in AO Angola.
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)
Chakraborty 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 | #109 | 217,153as Chakraborti | 1 in 6.1K | 217K | Chakraborty | 248 |
| BD Bangladesh | #72 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Chakraborty | 91 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Chakraborty | 25 |
| CN China | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 236K | — | Chakrabarti | 11 |
| US United States | — | 1,537 | 1 in 216K | 2.8K | Chakraborty | 250 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Chakravorty | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Chakraborty | 54 |
217,153 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling chakraborti. 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)
- Shibram Chakrabortyb. 1902INIndian writer, humorist and revolutionary
- Mithun Chakrabortyb. 1950INIndian film actor
- Pritam Chakrabortyb. 1971INIndian music director and composer
- Lily Chakrabortyb. 1972INComposer, Singer
- Raj Chakrabortyb. 1974INIndian director, producer, politician
- Tanusree Chakrabortyb. 1984INIndian actress
- Mimi Chakrabortyb. 1989INIndian actress
- Arjun Chakrabartyb. 1990INnot in their usual nameIndian actor (born 1990)
- Rhea Chakrabortyb. 1992INIndian actress
- Irina ChakrabortyRUFinnish environmental engineer
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Chakraborty?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃakɹəbɔɹti/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Chakraborty have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 217 thousand people named Chakraborti, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Chakraborty?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,537 people named Chakraborty in 2010, about 1 in 216 thousand residents.
- How common is Chakraborty compared with other names?
- In India, Chakraborty is the 109th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chakrabortyThe 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, “Chakraborty” — the 109th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.