# Chatterjee (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/chatterjee/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Bengali.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Bengali |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,155 |
| US rank (2010) | 13,985 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 143,269 people |
| Change since 2000 | +81% (1,193 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Anglicization of Bengali চাটুজ্জে (caṭujje).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Chatterjee in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 4.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 0.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 91% |
| Two or more races | 3.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Chatterjee in British Raj, the United States and Dominion of India.

## People named Chatterjee

- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali writer, poet and journalist (1838-1894)
- Sankar Chatterjee, American geoscientist, paleontologist
- Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Bengali linguist (1890–1977)

## Similar surnames

Cutright, Cuadros, Catterson.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.