Mukherjee

3,975 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mukherjee in the 2020 census, making it the 7,993rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 75,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,975
Rank: 7,993rd
How common: 1 in 75,200
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Bengali

Anglicization of Bengali মুখুজ্জে.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 91.7%
White, not Hispanic 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Mukherjee

Pranab Mukherjee (1935–2020)President of India from 2012 to 2017
Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 1970)Indian-American physician and writer
Bharati Mukherjee (1940–2017)Indian-American writer
Ashutosh Mukherjee (1864–1924)Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician
Swastika Mukherjee (born 1980)Indian actress
Madhabi Mukherjee (born 1942)Indian actress
Sharda Mukherjee (1919–2007)Indian politician
Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949–2015)Indian sculptor and textile artist

People named Mukherjee 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.