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Most common surname in India
People with this surname currently in the iMeUsWe database
Some famous or notable personalities associated with this surname are Sultan Fetih Mehmet Khan, an Ottoman sultan notable for the capture of Constantinople, and Sulaiman Khan Karrani, Sultan of Bengal.
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Bihar
4,959
Tamil Nadu
2,824
Maharashtra
2,611
Uttar Pradesh
2,098
Madhya Pradesh
1,404
Delhi
1,164
Andhra Pradesh
666
Jammu and Kashmir
253
Jharkhand
238
West Bengal
186
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People with the surname SULTAN appear across 5 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.
10,933 (64%)
Food Distribution Records
4,431 (26%)
Voters List
1,680 (10%)
Farmer Beneficiary Records
4 (0.0%)
Govertment Farmers Benificary List
1 (0.0%)
Investor & Taxpayer Records
The SULTAN surname is found across multiple communities including Twelver Shia, Bengali Muslims, Pathan (pashtun) communities.
SULTAN families belong to the DATTATREYA gotra.
Bihar has the highest concentration of the SULTAN surname with 4,959 records (30.2%).
The SULTAN surname is written in URDU, KASHMIRI, PARSI scripts.
SULTAN is ranked #159 in India with approximately 5,49,288 people bearing this surname.
The SULTAN surname is found across 10 states, with the top 3 being Bihar (30.2%), Tamil Nadu (17.2%), Maharashtra (15.9%).