Chatterjee

At the 2020 census, 3,157 Americans bore the surname Chatterjee — 9,793rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 94,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,157
Rank: 9,793rd
How common: 1 in 94,700
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Bengali

Anglicization of Bengali চাটুজ্জে.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 90.8%
White, not Hispanic 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Chatterjee

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894)Bengali writer, poet and journalist
Asima Chatterjee (1917–2006)Indian chemist
Soumitra Chatterjee (1935–2020)Indian actor
Basu Chatterjee (1930–2020)Indian film director
Rani Chatterjee (born 1984)Indian actress
Somnath Chatterjee (1929–2018)Indian politician and former Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Rajeshwari Chatterjee (1922–2010)Indian scientist
Parambrata Chatterjee (born 1980)Indian actor

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

Surnames like Chatterjee

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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.