Acharya

Acharya is the 5,965th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,557 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 53,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,557
Rank: 5,965th
How common: 1 in 53,800
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Sanskrit आचार्य (“one who is learned in conduct”), from आचार (“rules, conduct”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Acharya described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.2%
White, not Hispanic 1.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Acharya

Bhanubhakta Acharya (1814–1868)The First-ever poet of Nepali Language
Anuradha Acharya (born 1972)entrepreneur
Ganesh Acharya (born 1971)Indian choreographer and occasional film actor active in Bollywood

People named Acharya with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.