Chowdhury

18,535 people in the United States were counted with the surname Chowdhury in the 2020 census, making it the 1,902nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 16,100.

By the numbers

People: 18,535
Rank: 1,902nd
How common: 1 in 16,100
Per 100,000: 6.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Bengali

Borrowed from Bengali চৌধুরি.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
White, not Hispanic 1.9%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Chowdhury

Shefali Chowdhury (born 1988)British actress
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury (1921–1987)Bangladeshi jurist and politician
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury (1932–2024)President of Bangladesh from 2001 to 2002
Renuka Chowdhury (born 1954)former Union Minister of India and Member of Rajya Sabha
Salil Chowdhury (1925–1995)Indian composer, poet and playwright
A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury (1915–2001)Bengali statesman, public servant and judge
Najma Chowdhury (1942–2021)Bangladeshi academic
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury (1928–2006)former Prime Minister of Bangladesh

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

Surnames like Chowdhury

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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.