Those who are born in South may know Iyers,Iyengars,Raos, Charis, Mudaliar, Chettiar,Pillai, Naidu, Menon, Nair and so on. But they are addressed only with personal names. But go to Maharashtra.You can hear surnames in abundance. After 1950,in South nobody is known by surnames. *Surname in Maharashtra* (दुनिया में विभिन्न प्रकार के इतने सरनेम महाराष्ट्र के अलावा कहीं नहीं मिलेंगे) *Colourful Maharashtrians*: - काळे, गोरे, पांढरे, काळभोर, हिरवे, पिवळे, ढवळे, सावळे ! *Metallic Maharashtrians*: पितळे, तांबे, लोखंडे, सोनार, चांदेकर, रत्नपारखी, हिरेखण, पूणताँबेकर! *Facial Maharashtrians*: केसकर, टकले, डोले, दाते, माने, कानफाडे, नकटे, बोबडे, तोतडे, डांगे, डोळस, डोईफोडे, टाँगे, नखाते! *Professional Maharashtrians* : दिवेकर, वैद्य, वकील, भगत, चिटणीस, दिवाण, भालदार, कुलकर्णी, ऊद्धव, पारधी, शास्त्री, मुकादम, गोसावी, सुतार, जोशी, गुरु, पंडित, घांगरेकर! *Vegetable Maharashtrians* : आंबेकर, आंब्रे, काकडे , देठे, दुधे, बुधे, केळकर, भाजीखाये, नारळे, मुळे, पिंपळकर, वाले, भेंडे, फुलमाळी, भाजीपाले ! *Ecological Maharashtrians* : मांजरेकर, कोल्हे, कावळे, तितरमारे, वाघ, घारपुरे, वाघमारे, लांडगे, गरुड़, घारे, किटकुले, उंदीरवाडे, चीतळे, पालकर! *Funny Maharashtrians*: पाद्दे, हगे, भूत, लिडबीडे, वडाभात, पोटभरे, पोटदुखे, पोटपुसे, पोटे, उकिडवे, थूके, वाडीभस्मे, रागीट, लेले ! *Common Maharashtrians* : मेश्राम, बालपांडे, गेडाम, देशपांडे, सहारे, मडावी, बारापातरे, मोहिते, पवार, ठाकरे, ठाकूर, देसाई, सुर्वे, शिंदे! *Money Oriented Maharashtrians* : लाखे, हजारे, सव्वालाखे, पगारे, शंभरकर, हजारे, चिकटे, पन्नासे, फुकटे, बावनकर, तनखीवाले, परीपगार ! *Loud Maharashtrians*: आकांत, गोंधळी, केकतपुरे, बोंबले, तावड़े! *Village Maharashtrians*: *झोंकरकर*,ओसवाडकर, शेगावकर, नागपुरे, पंढरपुरे पिंपलगावकर, डोंगरकर, मुरुडकर, खेडेकर, धारवाडकर, लोणकर, खांडेकर, बेडेकर, किरलोसकर, करमरकर, खामकर, पावसकर, रायकर, देवळेकर, कलमकर, नगरकर, सालगांवकर, शिरडीकर, भुसावले, खांगांवकर, यवतमाले ! *Killer Maharashtrians*: वाघमारे, कुत्तरमारे, मानुसमारे, तितरमारे, पादमारे, हगमारे, मनमारे, भिड़े, किरकिरे ! *Royal Maharashtrians*: पाटील, सावंत, वावले, सूर्यवंशी, भोसले, मालुसरे, निंबाळकर, मराठे, खांडेकर ! *City Maharashtrians* : वसईकर, पनवेलकर, चिपळूणकर, माहिमकर, कोल्हापूरे, नागपूरे, दादरकर, पुणेकर ! *Tasty maharashtrian* : कडू, गोडे, आंबटे ! इस लिस्ट मे कोई मजाक नही है। ये सभी सही महाराष्ट्रीयन सरनेम है। जिन्हें एक बड़ी रिसर्च के बाद केटेगराइज किया गया है, !! Pl enjoy w/o getting emotional.. Recd by whatsapp. Jayasala42
The post is super hilarious. I had never heard of such funny Maharashtrian surnames. A question does pop into my head.. Y do south indians dont have surnames? They write the name of their father in front of their names right(boys especially)??
Most of them from Andhra,Telangana and Karnataka have surnames. Usually people from Tamil Nadu do not have surnames unlike other South Indian states.
Having been staying and touring Maharashtra, I used to wonder about the origins the alpha and omega of these names. I had to strain to distinguish the names from one another & developed a knack to put these names in memory as I had numerous occasions to call staff on phone in an office of around 250. All names ending with “ car” used to put me in queer situation. In Parsi community dominating in business and in defence used to have names indicating a profession. I had a friend by name Daruwalla but never I found him intoxicated. Asober soul. (Daaru is an intoxicating liquid). Thanks and Regards.
interesting and hilarious !! we being north indians, we only hear sharma, verma, gupta, shukla, bansal, kansal, jindal, agarwal, dwivedi, chaturvedi, trivedi, tiwari, pandey and the ubiquitious singh !! i think singh as a surname goes with anything, i dont mean to offend anybody here, but singh is a very common surname here and majority of north indians use this sirname . i ahve heard most of these surnames, though not all, one of the perks of working in an all india organisation is this only, you get to meet so many people form different parts of the country and from places i wasnt even aware of