Chatterjee
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu name meaning ‘teacher from Chatta’, a village in Bengal
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃəˈtɝdʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chatterjee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 66K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 83K
- USUnited States1 in 154K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
6,780 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
4 other spellings are 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)
Hindu name meaning ‘teacher from Chatta’, a village in Bengal
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chatterjee 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 | #287 | 6,780 | 1 in 196K | 6.8K | Chatterjee | 264 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Chatterjee | 20 |
| BD Bangladesh | #822 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Chatterjee | 23 |
| US United States | — | 2,155 | 1 in 154K | 3.2K | Chatterjee | 279 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Chatterjee | 108 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Chatterjee | 52 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Chatterjee | 102 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Chatterjee | 29 |
6,780 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chatterjee is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Bankim Chandra, Indian novelist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A surname from Bengali.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjib. 1838INnot in their usual nameBengali writer, poet and journalist (1838-1894)
- Asima Chatterjeeb. 1917INIndian chemist (1917–2006)
- Somnath Chatterjeeb. 1929INIndian politician and former Speaker of the Lok Sabha (1929-2018)
- Basu Chatterjeeb. 1930INIndian film director (1930–2020)
- Soumitra Chattopadhyayb. 1935INnot in their usual nameIndian actor (1935–2020)
- Sankar Chatterjeeb. 1943USAmerican paleontologist
- Prosenjit Chatterjeeb. 1962INIndian actor
- Priyanshu Chatterjeeb. 1973INIndian actor
- Parambrata Chatterjeeb. 1980INIndian actor
- Abir Chatterjeeb. 1980INIndian film and television 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 26 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Chatterjee mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu name meaning ‘teacher from Chatta’, a village in Bengal Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Chatterjee?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃəˈtɝdʒi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Chatterjee have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Chatterjee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chatterjee.
- How common is the name Chatterjee?
- In India, the national register counted 6,780 people named Chatterjee, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
- How common is Chatterjee compared with other names?
- In India, Chatterjee is the 287th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chatterjeeThe 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, “Chatterjee” — the 287th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.