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Most common surname in India
People with this surname currently in the iMeUsWe database
Shav: This surnames spread was a mix of people choosing to move and being forced to move. People might have moved to find better farms or city jobs, spreading this surname gradually. Forced movements, like from wars or slavery, also scattered this surname, often to places people didnt want to be. Exactly how this surname spread depends on the history of those who carried it.
This Surname has Bhav kapishthal Gotra.
from iMeUsWe Database
Bihar
813
Tamil Nadu
200
Gujarat
91
Maharashtra
67
Delhi
24
Jharkhand
21
Madhya Pradesh
16
Telangana
15
Uttar Pradesh
10
Jammu and Kashmir
1
from iMeUsWe Database
People with the surname SHAV appear across 3 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.
831 (66%)
Food Distribution Records
291 (23%)
Voters List
138 (11%)
Farmer Beneficiary Records
The SHAV surname is primarily associated with the Hindu religion.
SHAV families belong to the BHAV KAPISHTHAL gotra.
Bihar has the highest concentration of the SHAV surname with 813 records (64.6%).
The SHAV surname is written in KASHMIRI script.
SHAV is ranked #11639 in India with approximately 1,765 people bearing this surname.
The SHAV surname is found across 10 states, with the top 3 being Bihar (64.6%), Tamil Nadu (15.9%), Gujarat (7.2%).