Indian Surname DNA & Ancestry
Discover the history, origins, and genetic ancestry behind your family name. Explore DNA patterns unique to Indian surnames.
What Your Surname Reveals About Your Ancestry
Indian surnames carry centuries of history within them. Unlike Western naming conventions, Indian family names often encode information about occupation (Patel, Kulkarni), social group (Sharma, Iyer), geographic origin (Marwari, Bengali), or even ancestral achievements. Understanding your surname's origin is the first step in uncovering your family history.
However, surnames alone don't tell the complete story. DNA testing reveals the deeper genetic ancestry that surnames cannot—your paternal haplogroup (Y-DNA), maternal haplogroup (mtDNA), and autosomal ancestry composition. Many families with the same surname can have different genetic origins, while families with different surnames may share common ancestors.
Patel (village head), Kulkarni (accountant), Chetty (merchant), Dhobi (washerman)
Marwari, Bengali, Jaunpuri, Hyderabadi, Multani
Kashyap, Bharadwaj, Vashishtha, Gautam, Agnihotri
North Indian Surnames
South Indian Surnames
West Indian Surnames
Muslim Indian Surnames
East Indian Surnames
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