Acharja Surname
Approximately 4,951 people bear this surname
Acharja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 3,321 | 1:230,974 | 13,543 |
| Bangladesh | 1,081 | 1:147,416 | 5,565 |
| Bhutan | 549 | 1:1,122 | 116 |
Acharja (35) may also be a first name.
Acharja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Acharja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Acharja (Bengali: আচার্য, Hindi: अचरजा, Marathi: अचरजा, Oriya: ଆଚାଯର୍, Tibetan: ཨ་ཅར་ཇ།) occurs more in India more than any other country/territory. It may also be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Acharja.
How Common Is The Last Name Acharja? popularity and diffusion
The last name Acharja is the 96,087th most frequently held surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 1,471,934 people. Acharja is primarily found in Asia, where 100 percent of Acharja live; 100 percent live in South Asia and 67 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 1,744,716th most frequently used given name worldwide. It is borne by 35 people.
The surname Acharja is most commonly held in India, where it is held by 3,321 people, or 1 in 230,974. In India it is primarily concentrated in: West Bengal, where 96 percent reside, Odisha, where 2 percent reside and Assam, where 2 percent reside. Excluding India it occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Bangladesh, where 22 percent reside and Bhutan, where 11 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Acharja Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Acharja in the Marathi language | ||
| अचरजा | acaraja | - |
| Acharja in the Oriya language | ||
| ଆଚାଯର୍ | acayar | 97.3 |
| ଆଚାଜର୍ | acajar | 2.7 |
| Acharja in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཨ་ཅར་ཇ། | acharja | 86.24 |
| ཨ་ཙ་ཛ། | atsadza | 9.4 |
| ཨ་ཅཱར་ཇ། | acharja | 0.67 |
| ཨ་ཅར་ཡ། | acharya | 0.67 |
| ཨ་ཙ་ཇ། | atsaja | 0.67 |
| ཨ་ཅ་རེ་ཡ། | acharéya | 0.34 |
| ཨཱ་ཅར་ཇ། | acharja | 0.34 |
| ཨ་ཅ་རཇ། | acharaja | 0.34 |
| ཨཅར་ཇ། | acharja | 0.34 |
| ཨ་ཅལ་ཇ། | achalja | 0.34 |
| ཨ་ཅ་ཇཱ། | achaja | 0.34 |
| ཨ་རཅ་ཇ། | arachaja | 0.34 |
| Acharja in the Hindi language | ||
| अचरजा | acaraja | 77.78 |
| अचर्जा | acarja | 22.22 |
| Acharja in the Bengali language | ||
| আচার্য | acarya | 75 |
| আচার্য্য | acaryya | 25 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Acharja
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