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Most common surname in India
People with this surname currently in the iMeUsWe database
Better jobs or farmland might have lured some. Others might have fled bad times like droughts or wars. Where they settled depended on what was available and what the situation was. Families often stuck together for support, creating clusters of this surname in certain places. This created the pattern we see today.
This Surname has Shandilya Gotra.
Finding those variations would require looking at historical records from places where this surname is common.
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Uttar Pradesh
918
Telangana
491
Tamil Nadu
369
Madhya Pradesh
247
Delhi
237
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
136
Maharashtra
136
Andhra Pradesh
72
Bihar
62
Rajasthan
25
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People with the surname DHANI appear across 4 types of official government records in iMeUsWe's database — from electoral rolls to agricultural records — showing how widely distributed this surname is across Indian society.
1,612 (58%)
Farmer Beneficiary Records
664 (24%)
Voters List
496 (18%)
Food Distribution Records
5 (0.2%)
Govertment Farmers Benificary List
The DHANI surname is found across multiple communities including Padmasali, Karnataka Padmasali, Telangana Padmasali, Padmasali Beda communities.
The DHANI surname is primarily associated with the Hindu religion.
DHANI families belong to the SHANDILYA gotra.
Uttar Pradesh has the highest concentration of the DHANI surname with 918 records (34.1%).
The DHANI surname is written in TELUGU script.
DHANI is ranked #5914 in India with approximately 8,998 people bearing this surname.
The DHANI surname is found across 10 states, with the top 3 being Uttar Pradesh (34.1%), Telangana (18.2%), Tamil Nadu (13.7%).