as a Last Name
- 1,767
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Cherian
Meaning & Origins
Indian (Kerala): derivative of Hebrew-Aramaic Zecharya (see Zacharias), and variant of Zacharias among Kerala Christians. The final -n is the Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix. In India it is found only as a given name, but in the U.S. it is also used as a family name among families from Kerala.
| 16,479th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,767
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New York
- has the most people named Cherian per capita
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