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 last name Acharja (Bengali: আচার্য, Hindi: अचरजा, Marathi: अचरजा, Oriya: ଆଚାଯର୍, Tibetan: ཨ་ཅར་ཇ།) is more frequently found in India than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Acharja? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 96,087th most frequently held surname in the world, borne by around 1 in 1,471,934 people. The surname is primarily found in Asia, where 100 percent of Acharja reside; 100 percent reside in South Asia and 67 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 1,744,716th most widely held first name internationally, borne by 35 people.
This surname is most widely held in India, where it is borne by 3,321 people, or 1 in 230,974. In India Acharja is most frequent in: West Bengal, where 96 percent are found, Odisha, where 2 percent are found and Assam, where 2 percent are found. Other than India this surname is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Bangladesh, where 22 percent are found and Bhutan, where 11 percent are found.
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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