Kannada Submitted Surnames

AGARWAL     Indian, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi
Hindu and Jain surname meaning "people of Agroha", referring to a town in the Indian state of Haryana.

ANGADI     Indian, Kannada
From Kannada ಅಂಗಡಿ (aṃgaḍi) meaning "store, shop".

BHAT     Indian, Kashmiri, Urdu, Marathi, Kannada, Konkani
Variant of Butt.

BHATT     Indian, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Nepali
Variant of Butt.

BIRADAR     Indian, Kannada

HALIVAR     Kannada (Rare)

HIREMATH     Indian, Kannada
Hindu surname from Karnataka with an unknown meaning.

JADHAV     Indian, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Konkani
Meaning unknown.

KAMAT     Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Konkani
Means "people who work in soil" from काम (kām) meaning "work, task, labour" combined with मिट्टी (miṭṭī) meaning "soil, earth".

KRISHNA     Indian, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada
From the given name Krishna.

KULAKARNI     Indian, Kannada
Kannada variant of Kulkarni.

NAYAK     Indian, Odia, Gujarati, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Konkani, Nepali
Derived from Sanskrit नायक (nāyaka) meaning "hero" or perhaps "leader, chief".

PADUKONE     Indian, Kannada (Rare), Konkani (Rare)
From the name of ಕುಂದಾಪುರ (Kundapur), a coastal town in the state of Karnataka in India. This is the surname of Deepika Padukone (1986–), an Indian actress.

PRASAD     Indian, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Odia, Kannada
From Sanskrit प्रसाद (prasadā) meaning "clearness, brightness, purity, graciousness", ultimately from प्रसद् (prasad) "to fall into the power of". In Hinduism and Sikhism, the term refers to a type of religious food... [more]

RAJ     Indian, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Odia, Urdu, Nepali, Sinhalese
From Sanskrit राज (rāja) meaning "king, chief, sovereign", ultimately from राजन् (rājan) meaning "king, sovereign, prince, chief".

RAJU     Indian, Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Punjabi
Means "king" from Sanskrit राज (rāja) meaning "king, sovereign, chief".

REDDY     Indian, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Odia
Derived from Telugu రెడ్డి (reḍḍi) meaning "village headman".

SHANKAR     Indian, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada
From the given name Shankar.

SHETTY     Kannada, Indian, Telugu

SRIVASTAVA     Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali, Kannada
Variant transcription of Shrivastav.

SURESH     Indian, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada
From the given name Suresh.

TALAVAR     Indian, Kannada

VENKATESH     Indian, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada
Means "lord of Venkata", from Venkata, the name of a hill in southern India (see Venkata), combined with Sanskrit ईश (īśa) meaning "lord, master, husband" (see Isha).

VERMA     Indian, Burmese, Nepali, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Kannada
Variant of Varma.

YADAV     Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Nepali, Punjabi
From Sanskrit यादव (yādava) meaning "descendant of Yadu", referring to a legendary Hindu king and an alleged ancestor of Krishna. The term traditionally refers to a peasant caste in India and Nepal.