Banerjee

At the 2020 census, 4,416 Americans bore the surname Banerjee — 7,277th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 67,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,416
Rank: 7,277th
How common: 1 in 67,700
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Bengali

Borrowed from Bengali বাঁড়ুজ্জে.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 89.9%
White, not Hispanic 4.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee (born 1961)Indian American economist
Mamata Banerjee (born 1955)Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
Sushmita Banerjee (1964–2013)writer, memoirist, women's rights activist
Pratyusha Banerjee (1991–2016)Indian television actress
Dola Banerjee (born 1980)Indian archer
Surendranath Banerjee (1848–1925)Indian politician and scholar
Victor Banerjee (born 1946)Indian actor
Puja Banerjee (born 1987)Indian television actress, Film actress

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

Surnames like Banerjee

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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.