Common Northern India Surnames: (Delhi, Haryana, Punjab,etc)
Sharma
Verma
Gupta
Malhotra
Bhatnagar
Saxena
Kapoor, Kapur
Singh
Mehra
Chopra
Sarin
Malik
Common Eastern India surnames: (Bengal, Orrisa, etc.)
Chatterjee
Sen
Bose
Sengupta
Das
Dasgupta
Banerjee
Chattopadhyay
Mukopadhyay
Dutta
Common Southern India surnames: (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, etc.)
Nair (or Nayar)
Pillai
Rao
Jayaraman
Venkatesan
Balasubramanium
Subramanium
Rangan
Rangarajan
Common Central India (Bihar/ Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, etc)
Singh (Common for North also)
Yadav
Jhadav
Jaiteley
Chauhan
Mistry
Khan
Common Western India surnames: (Maharashtra, Gujarat, etc)
Shah
Mehta
Patel (Gujarati)
Patil (Maharashtrian)
Pawar, Powar
Gavde
Kadam
Tambe
Chavan
D'souza, Lobo, Rodrigues, D'Costa (Goan/ Pondicherry surnames- Former Portugal Colonies in India)
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