Chettri Surname
Approximately 78,573 people bear this surname
Chettri Surname User-submission:
The Sanskrit surname Chettri is connected with the Kshatriya caste, which is thought to directly derive from the word chhetri. Chhetris are a social group among Hindu double-borns and sacred thread-bearers (Tagadhari), according to Nepal's 1854 Legal Code (Muluki Ain).
Read More About This SurnameChettri Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 76,003 | 1:10,093 | 847 |
| Bhutan | 1,732 | 1:356 | 63 |
| United Arab Emirates | 347 | 1:26,404 | 2,956 |
| Nepal | 102 | 1:279,225 | 3,420 |
| Kuwait | 77 | 1:49,360 | 5,585 |
| United States | 61 | 1:5,941,950 | 288,805 |
| Hong Kong | 56 | 1:130,991 | 2,371 |
| Qatar | 53 | 1:44,491 | 4,459 |
| Australia | 23 | 1:1,173,726 | 64,589 |
| Singapore | 21 | 1:262,272 | 11,611 |
| Thailand | 18 | 1:3,924,352 | 328,346 |
| Canada | 18 | 1:2,046,977 | 128,463 |
| Malaysia | 17 | 1:1,734,954 | 70,664 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Maldives | 2 | 1:202,086 | 4,973 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Myanmar | 1 | 1:51,937,985 | 2,166 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| East Timor | 1 | 1:1,215,928 | 507 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
Chettri (60) may also be a first name.
Chettri Surname Meaning
User-submitted Reference
The Sanskrit surname Chettri is connected with the Kshatriya caste, which is thought to directly derive from the word chhetri. Chhetris are a social group among Hindu double-borns and sacred thread-bearers (Tagadhari), according to Nepal's 1854 Legal Code (Muluki Ain). Chhetris are primarily Hindus.
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Average Chettri Salary in
United States
$40,792 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Chettri Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chettri Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chettri (Bengali: ছেত্রী, Hindi: क्षेत्री, Tibetan: ཆེད་ཏི་རི།) is found most frequently in India. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chettri? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 7,221st most frequently used last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 92,749 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Asia, where 100 percent of Chettri live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 97 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 1,270,172nd most frequently occurring first name world-wide, held by 60 people.
The last name is most commonly held in India, where it is held by 76,003 people, or 1 in 10,093. In India Chettri is primarily concentrated in: Sikkim, where 65 percent reside, West Bengal, where 27 percent reside and Meghalaya, where 6 percent reside. Beside India Chettri exists in 40 countries. It is also common in Bhutan, where 2 percent reside and The United Arab Emirates, where 0 percent reside.
Chettri Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Chettri surname are 3.91% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 57.14% registered with the party.
The amount Chettri earn in different countries varies markedly. In United States they earn 5.46% less than the national average, earning $40,792 USD per year and in Canada they earn 40.87% less than the national average, earning $29,379 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chettri Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chettri in the Hindi language | ||
| क्षेत्री | ksetri | 89.57 |
| छेत्री | chetri | 5.21 |
| क्ष्ोत्री | ksotri | 2.37 |
| क्षत्री | ksatri | 0.95 |
| चेत्त्री | cettri | 0.95 |
| क्षैत्री | ksaitri | 0.47 |
| श्रेत्री | sretri | 0.47 |
| Chettri in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཆེད་ཏི་རི། | chétiri | 86.08 |
| ཆེ་ཏི་རི། | chétiri | 6.08 |
| ཁར་ཀ་ཆེད་ཏི་རི། | kharkachétiri | 4.05 |
| ཆིད་ཏི་རི། | chitiri | 1.01 |
| པའུ་རེལ་ཆེད་ཏི་རི། | pa'urelchétiri | 0.76 |
| བཱས་ནེཏ་ཆེད་ཏི་རི། | bénetachétiri | 0.51 |
| ཚེད་ཏི་རི། | tsétiri | 0.25 |
| ཆེད་ཏི་རི | chétiri | 0.25 |
| ཆེ་ཏེ་རི། | chétéri | 0.25 |
| ཀར་ཀི་ཆེད་ཏི་རི། | karkichétiri | 0.25 |
| ཆེན་ཏི་རི། | chentiri | 0.25 |
| ཆིད་ཏི་རི་། | chitiri | 0.25 |
| Chettri in the Bengali language | ||
| ছেত্রী | chetri | 57.14 |
| ছেত্রি | chetri | 14.29 |
| চেত্রী | cetri | 14.29 |
| চেত্রি | cetri | 14.29 |
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