as a Last Name
- 1,858
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Chatterjee
Meaning & Origins
Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Hindu (Brahman) name, from Chatta, the name of a village, + jhā ‘teacher’ (a greatly reduced form of Sanskrit upādhyāya), i.e. ‘teacher from the village of Chatta’. In Bengali names formed with -jee, the initial element is believed to indicate a village granted by Ballal Sen, an ancient king of Bengal, to an ancestor of bearers of the surname.
| 15,770th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,858
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Jersey
- has the most people named Chatterjee per capita
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