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First names. Many people in Bangladesh and West Bengal have two given names: a "good name" (Bengali: ভালো নাম, romanized: bhalo nam), which is used on all legal documents, and a "call name" or "nickname" (Bengali: ডাক নাম, romanized: dak nam), which is used by family members and close friends. The two names may or may ...
Shamsuzzoha (name) Shimu. Shuvo. Sikdar. Categories: Bengali names. Surnames by language. Surnames of Indian origin. Social groups of West Bengal.
Mukherjee. Mukherjee (Bengali: মুখার্জি), also Mukerjee, Mookerjea, Mookerjee, Mukerji, Mukherji, Mukhujje or Mookherjee, is a Bengali Hindu Kulin Brahmin surname originating from the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. [1] The traditional Bengali version is Mukhopaddhae, which is sometimes written Mukhopadhyay.
Sen (Bengali: সেন) is a native Bengali Hindu surname derived from "Sena", the Sanskrit word for "army".. The surname is commonly found in the Bengal region of the Indian Subcontinent; namely Bangladesh & West Bengal, India mainly among Bengali Baidya and Kayastha [1] communities.
Das is a common surname among Bengali Kayasthas. [2] In Bengal, the surname is also used by both Scheduled Castes [3] and General Castes. In Bihar, it is used by people belonging to Ambashtha and Karan Kayastha castes. [4] More broadly, in Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand, the surname "Das" is also used by the Dhobi and Patni communities. [5]
Ghosh or Ghose (Bengali: ঘোষ) is a native Bengali surname that is found among the Bengali Hindu community of India and Bangladesh. Ghoshes originally belong to Kayastha caste in Bengal . The Bengali Kayasthas evolved as a caste from a category of officials or scribes, between the 5th/6th century AD and 11th/12th century AD, its component ...
The term Bengali is generally used to refer to someone whose linguistic, cultural or ancestral origins are from Bengal. The Indo-Aryan Bengalis are ethnically differentiated from the non-Indo-Aryan tribes inhabiting Bengal. Their ethnonym, Bangali, along with the native name of the Bengali language and Bengal region, Bangla, are both derived ...
The surname Pal (or Paul) is found in Bengal among Bengali Kayasthas. [2] [3] Historian Tej Ram Sharma mentions that the surname is "now confined to Kayasthas of Bengal" while referring to the names of Brahmins ending in such Kayastha surnames in the early inscriptions dating back to the Gupta period.