Frequency: (428)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Indian (Gujarat, Bombay city, Rajasthan): Hindu (Bania, Vania) and Parsi name meaning ‘cloth merchant’ in Gujarati, from kapǝ ‘cloth’ (Sanskrit karpaṠa) + the adjectival suffix -ya.
GIVEN NAMES: Indian 74%; Muslim 11%.Dinesh (7), Dilip (6), Bharat (4), Atul (3), Deepak (3), Divya (3), Hitesh (3), Mahendra (3), Mahesh (3), Naresh (3), Rajesh (3), Sudhir (3); Abdul (4), Shabbir (4), Aslam (2), Abbas, Aliasghar, Altaf, Anwar, Ashraf, Bashir, Chirag, Farid, Hashim.
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